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How News Headlines Make or Break the Public Mind

by |30 November 202110 December 2021|Verité in the News

Published on Groundviews The front page main headline is the focal point of a newspaper that grabs the attention of news consumers. A main headline goes beyond merely describing the facts of a news story in a few words. As...

Reporting on identity in the Sri Lankan media: Ethics and errors

by |14 January 201914 January 2019|Verité in the News

Taken from Groundviews ‘It was a Muslim youth who got them involved in the [drug] trade.’ ‘A Tamil man who tried to enter Singapore with forged documents has been arrested.’ It is not uncommon to read headlines of this nature...

Sri Lankan media ownership laid bare with new transparency tool

by |29 October 201829 October 2018|Verité in the News

Taken from LBO October 26, 2018 (LBO) – Reporters without Borders and Sri Lanka’s Verite Research have launched a web portal that aims to inform the public about media ownership, and possible inherent biases that may be present in media...

මොළ හෝදන ලංකාවේ මාධ්‍ය හිමිකමේ තිත්ත ඇත්ත මෙන්න

by |29 October 201828 November 2018|Verité in the News

Taken from Lanka A News මෙරට මුද්‍රිත මාධ්‍ය ආයතනවලින් සියයට 79 කට යම් දේශපාලනඥයකුගේ හිමිකමක් හෝ වක්‍රාකාර බලපෑමක් පවතින බව අනාවරණවී තිබෙනවා. ඒ sri-lanka.mom-rsf.orgවෙබ් අඩවිය හා දේශ සීමා විරහිත මාධ්‍යවේදීන් සිදුකළ අනාවරණයකට අනුවයි. එමෙන්ම මෙරට ජනමාධ්‍ය පරිහරණය කරන පිරිසෙන් සියයට 75...

MEDIA OWNERSHIP IN SRI LANKA: AUDIENCE CONCENTRATION IS VESTED IN THE HANDS OF A FEW OWNERS

by |29 October 201829 October 2018|Verité in the News

Taken from Sri Lanka Brief 23 individuals own 44 of the most popular media outlets in the country. The owners of 2 outlets in the online medium remains unknown. The top 4 owners in the mediums of print, television and...

REPORT:THE MEDIA REGULATOR OF SRI LANKA, THE GOVT HAS ITS OWN 30 PLUS MEDIA OUTLETS

by |29 October 201829 October 2018|Verité in the News

Taken from Sri Lanka Brief In the media space, the state’s dual role as both an owner and a regulator means it is a player in the game as well as a referee and a rule-maker. With ownership of at...

Media Ownership Monitor: Who owns the media in Sri Lanka and how much?

by |26 October 201828 November 2018|Press Release

The Media Ownership Monitor is an international platform that traces and identifies the owners behind the key media outlets in different countries. As a pioneering initiative between the German Section of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Verité Research, the Media...