COLOMBO – The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) rolled out its latest investigative reporting initiative on counter-narratives to electoral disinformation and harmful content last week.
The program is a continuation of CIR’s four-year-long program on electoral integrity, an institutional commitment to promote electoral integrity of Sri Lanka.
Under the new initiative, a series of in-depth stories across mediums will be developed over a period of six months by trained journalists and experts.
An orientation session was held on 15 July 2025 at the Sri Lanka Foundation, Colombo, to consider media coverage on the 2024 elections and what other areas could have been addressed. Contributors discussed how insights from the3 recent election coverage and issues that remain to be addressed including the delay in holding provincial elections.
The new initiative brings together a select group of CIR Reporting Fellows, activists working on electoral integrity and editors/opinion writers.
The program is supported by Factum Sri Lanka as a part of a broader program on Strengthening Resilience against Disinformation in Sri Lanka.
