The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) and Sri Lanka College of Journalism (SLCJ) along with ‘Internews’ organized a workshop on ‘Fact Checking, Misinformation Monitoring and Investigating Disinformation in Journalism’ and it was held on 1st and 2nd of November 2019 in Jaffna.

The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) has extended the invitation to Department of Media Studies along with inviting Professional Journalists from Northern Province for this workshop.

This workshop covered the impacts of the Fake News, identifying the Fake News in Social Media as its main areas of discussion and the workshop facilitates the students to learn the importance of fact checking in protecting the professional ethics in modern journalism.