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Ethics violations of the Editors’ Code in the print media for year 2021 monitored by the PCCSL 0
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- January 19, 2022
The Dispute Resolution Council of the Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka released the violations of the Editors’ Code, monitored by the PCCSL Secretariat, for the Year 2021 published in national newspapers in Sinhala, Tamil and English languages. There were in all 64 violations for the Year under review. Of the 64 violations, Clause
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National newspapers resolve 207 complaints on a self-regulation basis 0
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- November 19, 2021
National newspapers resolved 207 complaints from aggrieved readers directly on a self-regulation basis last year while the Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka (PCCSL) received 76 complaints for adjudication under the voluntary mechanism set up by the industry back in 2003. The annual report of the PCCSL for 2020 presented by its Chief Executive Officer,
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Google signs contracts with German publishers in row over copyright 0
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- November 19, 2021
BERLIN- Google announced on Thursday (18) it has signed its first contracts with German publishers following the introduction of a new law that gives more rights to news publishers online. The agreements were signed, among others, with news magazine Der Spiegel, newspapers Die Zeit, Tagesspiegel, and Stroeer’s online news website t-online.de. The companies confirmed the
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Are people lying more since the rise of social media and smartphones?0
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- November 19, 2021
By David Markowitz Technology has given people more ways to connect, but has it also given them more opportunities to lie? You might text your friend a white lie to get out of going to dinner, exaggerate your height on a dating profile to appear more attractive or invent an excuse to your boss over
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PCCSL has sent this letter to all Editors to observe utmost care and responsibility when reporting on suicides 0
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- October 16, 2021
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Trump administration secretly seized phone records of Times reporters 0
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- June 4, 2021
Trump administration secretly seized phone records of Times reporters – head WASHINGTON — The Trump Justice Department secretly seized the phone records of four New York Times reporters spanning nearly four months in 2017 as part of a leak investigation, the Biden administration disclosed Wednesday (2). It was the latest in a series of revelations
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About PCCSL

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.