The Marga Institute is grateful for the opportunity to host the resource collection of Media Reform Lanka and trusts that this initiative will be mutually beneficial and add value to the civil society action and advocacy initiatives of both institutions.
The Media Reform Lanka initiative aims to broaden and inform the perspectives in which media law, media policy and regulation are debated and determined in Sri Lanka, and to provide a resource for those working in this important field. It seeks to identify and clarify the principles and context of media policy and regulation and to widen the constituency which understands the changing international and technological media context. The aim is to ensure that in an age of increasing globalisation and convergence, civil society is aware of the importance of issues of media policy and law for freedom of expression and the safeguarding of the public interest.
The initiative has involved academic, legal, NGO, government, and civil society institutions in Sri Lanka and encourages them to contribute to the debate. Its principal focus is on higher education and professional training. The research team has consulted with educational institutions and media training institutes in Sri Lanka with a view to developing new curricula in Media Policy, Regulation and Law and supplementing existing ones. The resource content aims to support the teaching of such curricula and provide an accessible guide to the issues for identified stakeholder groups. The project focuses on the national context and circumstances of Sri Lanka and the existing capacity of institutions of higher education and training in the field of journalism, communication and the media, as well as those devoted to the analysis of public policy. A secondary objective is to increase expertise and to promote greater understanding of problems common to South Asian countries, and greater cooperation in finding solutions to them.
This Resource Collection provides access to research and articles- exegesis and analysis – written or commissioned by the research team. It also provides an archive of relevant resource material, including curricula, declarations, reports and comparative literature and reports from other South Asian countries. It is structured in a way that will both give added value to students and faculty staff working in the field, and provide an accessible resource for activist organisations and professionals in India, Sri Lanka and other parts of South Asia involved in the media or media regulation.
The initiative aims to promote Media Policy and Law as a curriculum subject on a sustainable basis, to build up expertise in the field both academically and among other key stakeholder groups, and to equip civil society more effectively to defend and extend the public interest in the fast evolving media landscape of the early twenty-first century.
Resource Collection of Media Reform Lanka
Introduction to Research Articles
The Introduction MEDIA REFORM LANKA DOWNLOAD
Research articles
About The Contributors DOWNLOAD
Journalism on the front line- Amal-Jayasinghe DOWNLOAD
Sri Lanka’s minority media at the crossroads – Ameen Izzadeen DOWNLOAD
Constitutional limitations on judicial activism in recognising a general right to information – The need for a Right to Information Act – Dr Jayantha Almeida Guneratne DOWNLOAD
New media, old mindsets: A Bridge too far? – Nalaka-Gunawardene DOWNLOAD
Sri Lanka’s women journalists: Fighting the good fight- Namini-Wijedasa DOWNLOAD
Media practice, media education and politics in Sri Lanka – Sasanka Perera DOWNLOAD
Foundations for media freedoms – Sinha-Ratnatunga DOWNLOAD
Legal, industry and educational reforms pertaining to the print media – Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena & Gehan Gunetilleke DOWNLOAD
Media Policy and law in Sri Lanka – Kishali Pinto – Jayawardena & Gehan Gunetilleke DOWNLOAD
The Political Economy of the Electronic Media in Sri Lanka -Tilak Jayaratne & Sarath Kellapotha) – DOWNLOAD
Books
The Media Reform Lanka project has given rise to two publications. The first is a publication in Sinhala authored by Kishali Pinto Jayawardena and Gehan Gunetilleke on Media Law Reform in Sri Lanka. DOWNLOAD
The second is an edited volume published by Sage in 2015 entitled Embattled Media: democracy, governance and reform in Sri Lanka. This book, edited by William Crawley, David Page and Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena, is still available for sale either from bookshops or online.
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/book/embattled-media
Embattled Media is the first book to look comprehensively at the evolution of news media in post-colonial Sri Lanka, with a focus on media policy, law and education. The book provides a detailed analysis of existing Sri Lankan media laws and policies and of campaigns to reform them. It also focuses on the role of institutions in media education by providing a comprehensive analysis of existing media curricula. It stresses the importance of improved media literacy and of progressive Right to Information legislation for a healthy democracy. It is the first authoritative guide to the state of news media in Sri Lanka and the effects of insurgency and civil war on the media’s role in a developing country. The contributors include leading Sri Lankan journalists, broadcasters, practitioners in public law, media academics and analysts.
Chapter 1 – Introduction DOWNLOAD
Cases on media freedom and freedom of expression
Curriculum
Eastern University DOWNLOAD
Open University DOWNLOAD
Sabaragamuwa University DOWNLOAD
South Eastern University DOWNLOAD
Sri Lanka College of Journalism DOWNLOAD
Sri Palee Campus DOWNLOAD
UNESCO Model Curriculum DOWNLOAD
University of Colombo – Diploma in Journalism DOWNLOAD
University of Colombo – General DOWNLOAD
University of Jaffna – MRTC DOWNLOAD
University of Jaffna DOWNLOAD
University of Kelaniya DOWNLOAD
University of Kelaniya(Special) DOWNLOAD
University of Sri Jayawardenapura DOWNLOAD
Declarations and Reports
RKW Goonesekere Report on Reform of Media Laws and Regulations 1996 DOWNLOAD
Tholangamuwa Declaration 2005 DOWNLOAD
Media Charter, September 2005 DOWNLOAD
Community Radio – WB – Enabling Report – June 2006 DOWNLOAD
The Weligama Declaration 2006 DOWNLOAD
Colombo Declaration 1998 ( updated 2008) (English) DOWNLOAD
Media Summit Report 2010 (Sinhala) DOWNLOAD
Summit Statement 2010 (Sinhala) DOWNLOAD
Ethics
Media Law Reform Proposals
Contempt of Court Draft Act – BASL DOWNLOAD
Proposed Legal Reforms in Regard to Broadcasting DOWNLOAD
PROPOSED REFORM OF RELEVANT CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS DOWNLOAD
Restrictions on Freedom of Speech in Emergency Law Provisions DOWNLOAD
Right to Information draft law DOWNLOAD
Right to Information draft law (amended version put forward by the Ministry of Justice) DOWNLOAD
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