Sri Lanka Press Institute hosted a series of media salons on the zoom platform for journalists which addressed election-context, post-election, and current media and political contexts. The three areas addressed following the 2020 Parliamentary election covered a discussion on election reporting namely for provincial journalists, a session to gauge the media influence on public opinion, and […]
The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) held its 17th Annual General Meeting on the 21st of October 2020 virtually using the Zoom web-conference platform, attended by representatives of its constituent partners – the Newspaper Society of Sri Lanka, The Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka, the Free Media Movement, the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association and
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The “Women in Media and Safety” 2-day Sinhala medium workshop, organized by the Sri Lanka Press Institute in conjunction with UNESCO, took place at Hotel Janaki on 27 th and 28 th June 2020. A mix of Colombo and Provincial journalists were invited to attend the event. A total of 6 different sessions were held
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The “Women in Media and Safety” 2-day Tamil medium workshop, organized by the Sri Lanka Press Institute in conjunction with UNESCO, took place at Hotel Janaki on 27 th and 28 th June 2020. A mix of Colombo and Provincial journalists were invited to attend the event. A total of 6 different sessions were held
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Sri Lanka Press Institute hosted webinars for journalists moderated in both Sinhala and Tamil languages on “Tackling Fake news during the Election Period” The webinars were hosted on the Zoom platform on 15th and 20th July 2020. The resource persons for the two webinars were Mr. Arun Arokiyanathan, Editor, Globe Tamil, Mr. Mohamed Fairooz, Editor,
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Sri Lanka Press Institute hosted two media salons for journalists on “Stress and Mental Health; Reporting in a Time of a Pandemic” on 30th April 2020 and 3rd May 2020 for Sinhala and Tamil audiences respectively. The salons were supported by IREX USAID and were aimed at providing journalists awareness on stress and mental health
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Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) in collaboration with Free Media Movement (FMM) organized a web-conference under the title; COVID-19: Challenges to Media Freedom and Social Responsibility on 3rd May 2020 at 9.30 a.m. The session prelude was opening remarks with the historical origin and declaration of the World Press Freedom Day made by Mr. Sukumar
இலங்கை பத்திரிகை ஸ்தாபனம் “ஊடகவியலாளர்களுக்கான பாதுகாப்பு மற்றும் அறிக்கையிடல்” எனும் தலைப்பில் இரண்டு இணையவழி கலந்துரையாடலினை நடாத்தியிருந்தது. தற்போது உலகம் முழுவதும் தீவிரமாக பரவிவரும் கொரோனா வைரஸ் எனப்படும் கொவிட்-19 (COVID–19) தொற்று நோயைப் பற்றி எமது ஊடகவியலாளர்கள் அறிக்கையிடும் போது எவ்வாறு தங்களை பாதுகாத்தல், மக்களுக்கு எவ்வாறு விழிப்புணர்வை ஏற்படுத்துதல், போலிச் செய்திகளுக்கு இடமளியாது தகவல்களை சமூகப் பொறுப்புள்ள ஊடகவியலாளர்களாக எவ்வாறு உண்மையான விடயங்களை பாதிப்பு ஏற்படாத வகையில் அறிக்கையிடல் போன்ற விடயங்கள் கலந்துரையாடப்பட்டது. இந்த
Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) held two web conferences on ‘Reporting and Safety for Journalists’ on 25th and 27th March 2020. To address the COVID-19 situation by providing awareness and best practices for the journalist community that educate and keep the larger public community informed, SLPI undertook this cause. The web conferences moderated in Sinhala
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SLPI conducted a Two day (13th and 14th March 2020) workshop on “Sail on your own strategies: For Sustainable work on Reconciliation stories”. 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 Languages, Social Progress,
