The Journalism Awards for Excellence 2018 (20th Edition) was successfully concluded with the ‘Awards Night’ at the Empire Ballroom of Mt. Lavinia Hotel on Tuesday, December 10, 2019. The event was organized by The Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka (TEGOSL) and Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI). The event saw a total of 313 applications including the latest […]
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The panelists Dr. Jehan Perera, Executive Director of National Peace Council Sri Lanka, Att. Jeevani Kariyawasam, Social Activist and Politician, Ms. Sanjeewani Roopasinghe, Senior Lecturer at the University of Kelaniya and moderator Mr. Kamal Liyanarachchi, Press Complaint Officer, Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka (PCCSL) led the discussion engaging the audience in a stimulating dialogue
In observance of the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) 2019 UNESCO organized South Asian Open Talks under the theme “Leaving No One Behind Promoting the Right to Information, Multilingualism in Cyberspace, and Local Content Development” on Wednesday 9 October 2019. Kumar Lopez, CEO of Sri Lanka Press Institute was a speaker at
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HOW CAN WE BE MORE RESPONSIBLE AS SOCIAL MEDIA USERS & CONTENT CREATORS? Social media operates on a currency of shares. The more we share, the popularity and value of the content increases. This is what we call going viral. We both share and (in many cases unwittingly) create content that we find interesting or
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Panel discussion on “The Role of Media in Ethnic Reconciliation” was held at the Sri Lanka Press Institute on 6th August 2019. The panelists Prof. Jayantha Seneviratna, Associate Professor at University of Kelaniya, Att. K. W. Janaranjana, Editor-in-chief, “Anidda” newspaper, Mr. Rashi Fernando, Acting Director, Secretariat for Coordinating Reconciliation Mechanisms (SCRM) and moderator Mr. Shan Wijethunge,
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හිතුවක්කාර සමාජ ජාල මාධ්ය භාවිතය වලක්වාලනු පිණිස සමාජ මාධ්ය නියාමනය බලවත් අවියක් ලෙස පෙරට ගෙන ආ යුතු බවට සිදු කෙරෙන බලපෑම් හා හඬ නැඟීම් අද සිරිලක දස අතින් ඉස්මතු වෙයි. ප්රායෝගිකව ගත් කල ගෝලීය හිමිකාරිත්වයකින් හා සිවිල් බලයකින් සමන්විත සමාජ ජාල මාධ්ය වේදිකා වෙත බලපෑම් කිරීමෙහි ලා හෝ ඔවුන් සමඟ කේවෙල් කිරීමකට යාමෙහි ලා අප
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SLPI conducted a two day (12th and 13th July) workshop on ‘’Fake News vs. Reconciliation: Strategies to recognize and react to false information’’ at Mandarina Colombo. SLPI hosted this event in collaboration with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the British Council Sri Lanka, in partnership with the Ministry of National Integration, Official
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Ethics of journalism මාධ්යකරණය සඳහා ආචාරධර්ම පද්ධතියක් ஊடகவியலுக்கான ஒழுக்க நெறிக்கோவை
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The 2nd Stakeholder Consultation Workshop on Provincial Adaptation Plans and Establishment of Provincial Climate Change Institutional Set Up for Western Province was held on the 18th June 2019 at the Auditorium of the Provincial Ministry of Local Government, Battaramulla. The workshop was organized by the Climate Change Secretariat of the Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment, the Office
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The Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), has been awarded posthumously to Saudi Arabian journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. Click here to read the article.
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