Black July: Two sister papers and two divergent narratives
Significance and consequence of Black July
Major stories in the Sinhala and Tamil press: Jul.28 – Aug.3
Signposts the differences and nuances in reporting between Sinhala and Tamil language newspapers. Over the past week the Sinhala and Tamil press converged in relation to four main stories. The four stories were on the: (i) enforcement of the law against politicians of...
July 21, 2025 – July 25, 2025
The TV coverage of the issues The data on television coverage is based on the monitoring of the primetime news telecasts of selected Sinhala language TV channels uploaded to YouTube. Please note that the issue on the U.S. tariff and the government's tax policy...
Major stories in the Sinhala and Tamil press: Jul.21 – 27
Signposts the differences and nuances in reporting between Sinhala and Tamil language newspapers. Over the past week the Sinhala and Tamil press converged in relation to five main stories. The five stories were on the: (i) amendments to the government’s tax policy and...
42 years since the Black July pogrom of 1983
Which Sinhala & Tamil TV channels covered it?
July 21, 2025 – July 27, 2025
This week’s memes
July 21, 2025 – July 27, 2025
This week’s cartoons
Chemmani mass grave: Through social media narratives
Two key narratives in the Sinhala & Tamil social media space
July 14, 2025 – July 20, 2025
This week’s cartoons
July 14, 2025 – July 18, 2025
The TV coverage of the issues The data on television coverage is based on the monitoring of the primetime news telecasts of selected Sinhala language TV channels uploaded to YouTube. The headlines of the Swarnavahini news telecast on July 17 were not available on...
Major stories in the Sinhala and Tamil press: Jul.14 – 20
Signposts the differences and nuances in reporting between Sinhala and Tamil language newspapers. Over the past week, the Sinhala and Tamil press converged in relation to six main stories. The six stories were on: (i) the government’s proposals to reform the education...
July 14, 2025 – July 20, 2025
This week’s memes
අනියමින් ප්රචණ්ඩත්වය සාමාන්යකරණය කිරීමක් ?
එකම පුවතක්, වාර්තාකරණයන් දෙකක්
එකම පාසලක පාසල් දැරියන් තිදෙනකු සිය සුඛෝභෝගී නිවෙසට වරින් වර රැගෙන ගොස් අපහරණය කරන ලදැයි කියන සිද්ධියක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් 30 හැවිරිදි විවාහක මෘදුකාංග ඉංජිනේරුවකු අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් පුවතක් ජූනි 30, 2025 දින සිංහල භාෂා පුවත්පත් තුල පහත ආකාරයෙන් පළව තිබිණි. පුවත්පත:...
June 30, 2025 – July 4, 2025
The TV coverage of the issues The data on television coverage is based on the monitoring of the primetime news telecasts of selected Sinhala language TV channels uploaded to YouTube. There was no coverage of the excavations at the Chemmani mass grave in Jaffna...
June 30, 2025 – July 6, 2025
This week’s memes
June 30, 2025 – July 6, 2025
This week’s cartoons
Chemmani mass grave
How did today’s newspaper front pages cover it?
Major stories in the Sinhala and Tamil press: Jun.30 – Jul. 6
Signposts the differences and nuances in reporting between Sinhala and Tamil language newspapers. Over the past week, the Sinhala and Tamil press converged in relation to four main stories. The four stories were on: (i) Minister Sunil Handunneththi’s participation in...
කාන්තාවන් පමණක් වෙන්කර පෙන්වන්නේ ඇයි?
එකම වරදකට කාන්තා සහ පිරිමි යන දෙකොටසම අත්අඩංගුවට පත්වූ විටකදී පවා, ඇතැම් මාධ්ය කාන්තාව පමණක් ඉස්මතු කොට දක්වනු දක්නට ලැබේ. දිනමිණ පුවත්පත තුළ (ජූලි 1, 2025) වාර්තා වූ පුවතක් මෙහිදී නිදසුන් ලෙසින් ගත හැක. 1) මෙසේ මාධ්ය, යම් වරදක් සම්බන්ධයේදී...
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