In the month of December 2021, an article published in Aruna used a headline that justified the crime reported in the news, which misleads the reader and blames the victim and normalises crimes such as acid throwing.

In the month of December 2021, an article published in Aruna contained contradictory information in the headline and the content. While the headline described the individual involved in an incident as one suffering from a ...

In the month of December 2021, articles published in Mawbima and Aruna used the term "Ganikawa", which is a derogatory term to describe sex workers that leads to social discrimination.

During the month of November 2021, Aruna, Mawbima, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Virakesari, Thinakaran, The Island, Daily News, Sirasa and Hiru published several news which contained the ethical violation of discriminating women ...

In the month of November 2021, an article published in Mawbima used a headline which discriminated persons with disabilities by identifying them as "disabled persons", thus not incorporating a person first language.

In the month of November 2021, two articles published in Divaina and Mawbima included the photo of a victim of a previous murder by associating it with the discovery of human remains elsewhere, which is a media ethics ...

During the month of November 2021, Aruna, Lankadeepa, Divaina, and Sunday Aruna published several articles which contained the following ethical violations: sensationalising news on sexual crimes, trivialising sexual crimes, ...

During the month of November 2021, Mawbima, Divaina, Aruna, and Lankadeepa published several articles which contained the following ethical violations: using the derogatory terms "දුෂණය" (Dooshanaya) and "කෙළෙසීම" (Keleseema) ...

In the month of November 2021 article published in The Morning on suicide contained emergency helplines, which is in compliance with media ethics guidelines.

During the month of October 2021 Lankadeepa, Divaina, Mawbima and Aruna published several articles which contained the ethical violations of using derogatory and backward terms such as "haamputha", "mathloliya" and "ganika", ...