Internews has been working in Sri Lanka since 2005, providing information services to vulnerable communities and delivering training to both established journalists and young trainees. Internews works closely with local organisations and the Government to harness the power of media and information to help people develop a peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka.
September 28, 2010 - THE UNICEF funded Mine Risk Education Road Show, implemented by Internews for the three Northern districts of Vavuniya, Maulaitivu and Killinochchi was successfully completed from end June to early Sept, having reached a total of 5250 persons( 2081 adults( M 967 F 1114) and 3169 children & students), in 61 sessions in 40 ...
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September 16, 2010 - Slogan: “Rally to Safeguard Media Freedom”, The 5th Delegates Conference of the Federation of Media Employees Trade Unions (FMETU) was held on 11th September 2010 at Hotel Janaki, Colombo, Sri Lanka, with the participation of around 150 provincial Journalists from all over the country, representing their affiliated Trade Unions and ...
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September 14, 2010 - Trincomalee Journalists who have been challenged by the brutal forces of war for several decades are seeing new light and enjoying new opportunities for professional development. These opportunities are offered by the Trincomalee Media House. The Trincomalee Journalists were exposed to modern communication techniques with the Digital Media Training conducted on ...
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August 20, 2010 - The Trincomalee Media house hosted an exciting forum on 08 August, 2010. The topic under discussion was “Towards a Cordial Relationship between Police and Journalist in Trincomalee”. 60 professionals from the Triomalee districts including police officers and journalists attended. The key representatives from the Poice Department were, Mr. Charitha A.B. Jayasundara, ...
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August 4, 2010 - A forum Discussion in the Tamil medium was held on 17th of July 2010 at the Mahapola Training Center, Sri Lanka Ports Authority, Oluvil. The theme of the discussion was Constitutional changes in Sri Lanka, Fundamental rights and human rights. 51 opinion leaders including journalists, local political party leaders and ...
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August 4, 2010 - A forum Discussion in the Sinhala medium on “Constitutional changes in Sri Lanka, Fundamental rights and human rights”, was held on 11th of July 2010 at Ampara Media House. 22 opinion leaders including journalists, Local political party leaders and educationists participated. . Mr. Chandrasiri, Co-ordinatior of Ampara District Human Rights ...
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July 13, 2010 - Ten trainee journalists with the Batticaloa Media House underwent a two day digital media training programme conducted jointly by Perambara and Internews. This was the second such programme following the one in Matara. The trainees were introduced to blogging, Flickr, Twitter and typing in Tamil using Google transliterator. At the end of ...
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July 9, 2010 - Journalists and law enforcement officials met at the Matara Media house on 8 July to discuss how they should strengthen their collaboration to serve the community more effectively. The meeting took the form of a Forum Discussion on the theme, "Police, Community and Human Rights". Under this theme ...
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July 3, 2010 - Internews, through its Trincomalee Media House, hosted a forum discussion for local journalists on problems facing journalists in the district. Thirty-two local journalists attended, including the president of the Trincomalee District Media Society, Mr. Mangalanath. The featured speaker was the Minister of Roads, Irrigation, Housing and Rural Electrification from ...
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June 30, 2010 - Internews' media house in Matara held a three-day training for southern provincial reporters on photojournalism from 28 to 30 June. Twelve journalists and four young trainee journalists received training from Mr. Sri Lal Gomes, Pictures Editor at The Island newspaper and Divaina Daily, and Mr. Asantha Abeyrathne, Layout designer from ...
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Aug 04, 2010 - KONWEVA, Sri Lanka, Aug 4 (IPS) – Dusk creeps over Konweva like a black shroud slowly draping over ...
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Jul 05, 2010 - The reporting climate in the Eastern Province has markedly improved compared to two years back. We have spent the ...
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Jun 28, 2010 - Batticaloa has long fascinated many. It is here that the biggest internal rebellion within the LTTE began. It ...
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Jun 11, 2010 - දක්ෂිණ ලංකා වෙරළ තීරය වඩාත් සුන්දර කිරීමට සමත්ව ඇත්තේ හික්කඩුව ගල් මල් තීරය බව නොරහසකි. ශ්රී ලංකාවට ඇදී එන බොහොමයක් ...
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May 24, 2010 - Every house in Kilinochchi has a story to tell. Everyone has seen something so out of this world in the ...
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May 03, 2010 - In the past six months Sri Lanka went through the ritual of elections. As usual our politicians have outperformed each ...
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Apr 26, 2010 - It is an evil mist that rises over Blomendhal. Every morning it hangs low, moving slowly over the small man ...
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Apr 12, 2010 - The war ended almost a year back. The north bore the brunt of the carnage. Now it is ...
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