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Picturing the Sri Lankan War: A Study on the Practice of War Reporting and Photojournalism

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dc.contributor.author Madushanka, H.A.G.
dc.date.accessioned 2019-01-11T02:51:06Z
dc.date.available 2019-01-11T02:51:06Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.identifier.citation Madushanka, H.A.G. (2018). Picturing the Sri Lankan War: A Study on the Practice of War Reporting and Photojournalism.4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. p31 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/19450
dc.description.abstract Photojournalism is a form of journalism that employs images in news reporting. In conflict reporting, the news value of a photo is high. A photo speaks louder than words and war-related news always has a high demand in journalism. In order to examine the picturing of war reporting in Sri Lanka, covering the last period of the 30-year-old civil war, war photographs that were published in daily newspapers from 2nd April 2009 to 22nd May 2009 were selected. The selected all daily national newspapers were in Sinhala, English and Tamil languages. Altogether 1928 pictures from 10 national daily newspapers were analysed. There is a lack of front-line action war photographs and war art photographs published in newspapers. Tamil newspapers published a minimum number of photographs, which amounted to 15% total published photographs about war. Photographs were published 26.2% by the Sri Lanka Army media and the Defence Ministry and 35.2% photographs were published without photographer’s name. The source of those photographs seems to be army media or defence ministry. Altogether 61.4% Photographs published from Sri Lankan army or the Defence Ministry. Newspapers reported Sri Lankan civil war from single perspective using the photographs provided by the above-mentioned sources. In this case, Newspapers have broken the fundamental ethical framework of reporting. Thus, the news photographs report by Sri Lankan newspapers can be considered as a totally one-sided depiction of the war. They report the story using the photographs who given them one part of the war. The contribution by newspaper reporters and provincial reporters was very low. The three-decade war ended. But the quality of photojournalism was below the standards en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher 4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject War reporting en_US
dc.subject Photojournalism en_US
dc.subject Civil war en_US
dc.subject Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject Newspaper en_US
dc.title Picturing the Sri Lankan War: A Study on the Practice of War Reporting and Photojournalism en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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