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How to cover a disaster like tsunami
A media skills development programme on coverage of disasters will be held between 28and 30th June 2005 in Colombo. Organised by the Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka, the programme is held in collaboration with the European Commission, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, SIDA, NORAD, DANIDA, Fojo and the Media Research and Training Institute of the Jaffna University.
Noting that the media played a major role in disseminating information to people during the tsunami disaster in December, the PCCSL said the programme was to cater to the urgent need to provide professional training on covering disasters.

“The need for professional training in the coverage of natural disasters became conspicuous after the tsunami as several complaints relating to cases of inaccurate and unethical coverage were received and followed up by the PCCSL,” the PCCSL said.

It said the PCCSL was in the process of drafting guidelines for such coverage in consultation with editors and newspaper publishers and these guidelines were in keeping with the Code of Practice of The Editor’s Guild of Sri Lanka.
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