Sachini Kavindya

Starting a newsletter? Keep these 5 strategies in mind.

As an Arthur F. Burns Fellow from Germany, I was able to look behind the scenes at the newsletter start-up 6AM City for two months. This is how clever curating can create a multimillion-dollar business:  Hyperlocal, constructive journalism — that is how the founders of the newsletter start-up 6AM City want to fight against the death of local news

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RTI: Let’s protect our right through the Right to Information Act! – Kalutara

Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) in collaboration with the Direct Aid Program (DAP) of the Australian High Commission to mark six years of implementation of the Right to Information in Sri Lanka conducted the fifth workshop of the series “RTI: Protecting our rights through the Right to Information Act” on February 3rd at Kalutara, was

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Learnings from a year-long focus on gender issues in Malaysia

2023-02-02. On International Women’s Day last year, Malaysia’s The Star kicked off a year-long collaborative initiative to profile key issues affecting women in Asia. The aim? To position stories around the key challenges facing women on the news agenda throughout the year – not just as a key calendar highlight. by Lucinda Jordaan lucinda.jordaan@wan-ifra.org | February 2,

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4 down, 3 to go: Cataloging Maria Ressa’s legal battles in early 2023

Maria Ressa’s recent acquittal of four tax charges, after five years of legal harassment led by the State, represents a rare victory for press freedom in the Philippines. Advocates for Ressa hope it signals a new direction for recently elected President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., away from the hardline authoritarian policies of the previous regime of Rodrigo Duterte.

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Online Forum on Habitat Management and Restoration in Protected Areas

ශ්‍රී ලංකා පුවත්පත් ආයතනය (SLPI), පරිසර සංවිධාන සම්මේලනය (FEO) සමඟ එක්ව රක්ෂිත කලාප තුළ වාසස්ථාන කළමනාකරණය, එහි ප්‍රතිස්ථාපනය සහ පාර්ශ්වකරුවන්ගේ සහභාගීත්වය පිළිබඳව ජනමාධ්‍යවේදීන් සහ අනෙකුත් උනන්දුවක් දක්වන පාර්ශ්වකරුවන් දැනුවත් කිරීම සඳහා මාර්ගගත සංසදයක් සංවිධානය කරයි. මෙම සැසිය සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් පැවැත්වේ. දිනය: 08 පෙබරවාරි 2023වේලාව : ප.ව. 7:00 සිට ප.ව. 8:00 දක්වා ලියාපදිංචි වන්න: https://forms.gle/xvr2QVgouiTBgn8F8 The Sri Lanka Press

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Siddique Kappan: Indian journalist released from jail after two years

Photo: Siddique Kappan was arrested while travelling in Uttar Pradesh state in 2020 Indian journalist Siddique Kappan has been released from prison more than two years after his arrest while travelling to report on an alleged rape. He was arrested in October 2020 in Uttar Pradesh state, where a young Dalit woman had died after she was

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Could ChatGPT supercharge false narratives?

Many warn of the tool’s potential to be a misinformation superspreader, capable of instantly producing news articles, blogs and political speeches. ChatGPT, a new artificial intelligence application by OpenAI, has captured the imagination of the internet. Some have suggested it’s the largest technological advancement in modern history. In a recent interview, Noam Chomsky called it “basically high

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