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Press Complaints body marks its decade
View(s):The Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka (PCCSL), the self regulatory body of the newspaper industry celebrated its tenth anniversary this week.
Pictures show (above) Sam Wijesinha cutting the anniversary cake. To his right are PCCSL CEO Sukumar Rockwood, and DRC members Devanesan Nessiah and Ms. Gnana Moonesinghe and (below right) PCCSL Chairman Kumar Nadesan presenting a memento to Mr. Wijesinha on behalf of the Commission. To his right are DRC members Daya Lankapura (partly hidden), Dion Schoorman, Siri Ranasinghe (President of The Editors’ Guild and Editor in chief of the Lankadeepa), Lucille Wijewardene and Pramod de Silva former Editor of the Daily News. Pix by Indika Handuwala
Established on October 15, 2003, the PCCSL stated in a release this week that it has adjudicated on over one thousand three hundred complaints during the ten year period. The PCCSL is managed by the Newspaper Society of Sri Lanka, The Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka, the Free Media Movement and the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association and is supported by several other affiliated media unions.
To mark the event, the Chairman of the PCCSL’s autonomous Dispute Resolution Council (DRC), Mr. Sam Wijesinha held a dinner at his Kollupitiya residence, ‘Lakmahal’ where he said that the PCCSL has proved that self regulation in the media industry has succeeded over adversarial litigation.
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