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Disaster Management, Issues, Media and Communications

Role of electronic media during natural disasters

The media have a significant role to play in times of natural disasters in terms of responsible and ethical coverage. However, electronic media coverage of the floods and landslides in some parts…

Deepanjalie Abeywardana Deepanjalie Abeywardana on 09/27/201709/27/2017
Gender, Issues, Media and Communications

The objectification of women in the Sinhala Press

Sri Lanka’s media continues to deviate from established standards of ethical journalism. This includes graphic pictures, misleading photos and commentary of events, racial labels used selectively against ethnic groups, factual errors and the…

Deepanjalie Abeywardana Deepanjalie Abeywardana on 05/03/201705/06/2017
Issues, Media and Communications, Politics and Governance

Post Mortem: The ‘ethics’ of assault

Media ethics became the focal point of discussion at a ‘post-mortem’ on a recent incident involving the Navy Commander assaulting journalist Roshan Gunasekera as he covered the Navy action to open the…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/16/2016
Issues, Media and Communications

Empathetic Media: Covering death with sensitivity

I’m here to speak to you today on a topic that, for me, has deep personal significance. It was quite a difficult decision for me to speak to you all today. In…

Raisa Wickrematunge Raisa Wickrematunge on 12/02/201607/28/2020
Culture, Issues

Requiem for Morals and Ethics

Featured image courtesy AFP/Getty Images Judge Patrick Arthur Devlin Given the manner in which this land is touted as the “Miracle of Asia” by some, living in a state of utopia, as…

Sharmini Serasinghe Sharmini Serasinghe on 02/23/2016

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