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  • Fanning the flames

    Fanning the flames1

    The role of the media and the question of ethical journalism/reporting have now become topics of much discussion among many following the reporting on the Easter Sunday attacks and its aftermath. Hours after the Easter Sunday terror attacks, some local electronic media platforms were flooded with “unedited” video footage of the horrific scenes, with images

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  • Editors resolve 243 complaints directly under the ‘Right of Reply’ option

    Editors resolve 243 complaints directly under the ‘Right of Reply’ option0

    Editors resolve 243 complaints directly under the ‘Right of Reply’ option   National newspaper Editors resolved 243 complaints made directly to them by aggrieved readers last year, while the Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka (PCCSL) received seventy-nine (79) complaints from the public, of which 19 were outside its scope.   The complaints resolved by

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  • PCCSL releases Annual Report 2017

    PCCSL releases Annual Report 20170

    PCCSL releases Annual Report 2017   The Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka (PCCSL) received 116 complaints in 2017, of which 76 complaints were valid complaints falling within the purview of the PCCSL mechanism under the Editors’ Code of Professional Practice. Of the 76 valid complaints, 29 were resolved with the assistance of the PCCSL

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  • Annual General Meeting 2016

    Annual General Meeting 20160

                           PCCSL releases Annual Report 2016   The Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka (PCCSL) released its Annual Report 2016 following the monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the PCCSL on Wednesday, November 01, 2017 at its office, 96 Bernard Soysa Mawatha (Kirula Road), Colombo 05.   PCCSL CEO Sukumar Rockwood presented a

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The Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka (PCCSL) is a voluntary self-regulatory mechanism inaugurated on October 15, 2003 by the media industry following an international conference whose outcome was the Colombo Declaration on Press Freedom and Social Responsibility of 1998 and re-visited in 2008 and 2018.

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