Lessons from a debtor nation
Sri Lankans may have gotten rid of their leaders, but they are bound to have a harder time getting out...
Amantha Perera is a Sri Lankan researcher at the School of Education and the Arts of the Central Queensland University, Australia. He is in the final stages of his master’s research project on the impact of online trauma threats on journalism during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Sri Lankans may have gotten rid of their leaders, but they are bound to have a harder time getting out...
As protests grow across the island nation, the country’s most powerful political clan finds itself on the brink once more.
Reticent Sri Lankans are becoming more vocal online about their discontent with the current regime.
Covering the pandemic has proved to be hazardous to the mental health of journalists.
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An increasingly restrictive and repressive environment, plus the media sector’s internal problems and shortcomings, are making it more complicated for...
Jane*, an activist in Sri Lanka, describes the situation “as if a pale mist” hung over her all the time....
With the pandemic forcing everyone online, the cyberspace has become a much more dangerous place for women journalists.
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