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Media Profile in Sources
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- CPJ award goes to jailed Sri Lankan journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists announced today that it will honor imprisoned Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam with a 2009 International Press Freedom Award.
- Death threats sent to paper of slain editor in Sri Lanka
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned by ongoing threats to Sri Lanka’s journalists and media organizations.
- Global media rights groups condemn "culture of impunity and indifference" in Sri Lanka
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Since the beginning of the New Year, both the killing of a senior editor and the attack on the facilities of a popular independent TV channel have led to a total paralysis of the media community in Sri Lanka.
- Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study.
- IFJ Calls for Inquiry Into Lasantha's Murder
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the widow of Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge in calling on Sri Lanka's power-holders to take immediate action to conduct a full, fair and independent investigation into the murder
- IFJ Condemns Shocking Attack on Tamil Newspapers in Sri Lanka
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly condemns an attack on three Tamil newspapers in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna. According to reports from IFJ sources, news agents for Jaffna’s three main newspapers were attacked.
- Journalists Organisations in Sri Lanka Feel Anti-Media Heat
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) says ongoing interrogation of journalists’ leaders in Sri Lanka is a bullying tactic that only serves to highlight an intolerance of freedom of expression and the failure of democratic processes in
- Outrage at fatal shooting of newspaper editor in Colombo
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the murder of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunga, who was shot dead by two men on a motorcycle as he drove to work this morning in Colombo.
- Participants at IFEX General Meeting demand action
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Free expression advocates from around the world gathered this week in Oslo, Norway for the General Meeting (GM) of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX).
- Peace with Justice in Sri Lanka: Genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils – its causes and solutions
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Peace with Justice in Sri Lanka: Genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils – its causes and solutions. A lecture by Dr. Brian Senewiratne, a Sinhalese closely connected with the ruling families of Sri Lanka.
- Press freedom activist badly beaten in Colombo, hospitalised
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by an assault on Poddala Jayantha, the secretary-general of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA), the country's leading journalists organisation.
- Press Freedom Under Fire in South Asia, 2008-09
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The seventh annual report on press freedom in South Asia documents alarming trends in working conditions for journalists.
- Sources welcomes Canadians for Genocide Education
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
CGE is a multi-cultural coalition of associations committed to equity and inclusivity in education on and commemoration of Genocide. Our focus areas are school curriculum and government funded projects relating to genocide and human rights.
- Sri Lanka: Fifty Years On
Censorship, Conflict and Media Reform
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1998
Report examining the impact of the conflict on freedom of expression and in particular media freedom in Sri Lanka.
- Sri Lanka: Call for journalists to be let into area where “a major humanitarian crisis” is unfolding with no media presence
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders reminds Sri Lanka's government of its international undertakings as the media continue to be prevented from moving about freely in the north especially in the area where tens of thousands of Tamils are surrounded by the army
- Sri Lanka: Government urged to punish violence against independent media outlets after new attack
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
A pre-dawn attack by a dozen heavily-armed men that badly damaged the studios of the Maharaja Television/Broadcasting Network (MTV/MBC) in Pannipitiya, near Colombo, after charges that the network’s reporting was not “patriotic” enough.
- UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize 2009 to be awarded posthumously to Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The late Sri Lankan journalist and editor of the Sunday Leader Lasantha Wickrematunge, who was assassinated on 8 January this year, has been named laureate of the 2009 UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize.
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