Reporters Without Borders: Interview with Frederica Jansz

Reporters Without Borders: Interview with Frederica Jansz, Editor-in-Chief of The Sunday Leader of Sri Lanka

Ten months after Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor of the independent Sri Lankan weekly, The Sunday Leader, was murdered, the new editor-in-chief and the news editor received death threats.

Reporters sans frontières: Entretien avec Frederica Jansz, Rédactrice en chef de The Sunday Leader au Sri Lanka

Dix mois après l'assassinat de Lasantha Wickrematunge, directeur du journal indépendant, The Sunday Leader, la nouvelle rédactrice en chef et une reporter ont reçu des menaces de mort.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• RSF
• Reporters sans frontières
• Reporters Without Borders
• The Sunday Leader
• Frederica Janz
• Sri Lanka
• Lasantha Wickrematunge

[mihilranathunga]

Keep up your work. But please take measures to your safety,you have become a liability to srilankan government. I haven't seen your work but please mind reporting is not all about going against something and what matters most is how your work helps srilankan citizens.

[NoEalamInSL]

@GetFonsekaOut, I think you are defending Jansz. As a jounrnalist she must clarify unclear things before publishing. You say "it was her decision", of course she must/have to do that. She didnt do it as a favour for us. Yet she let the misleading article publish without correction on 13th dec. Jansz knew SF was quoting media. Every Sri Lankan knew by that time SF was quoting a statement origined from media. Jansz let her mess (unorganized/noleadership)at SundayLeader mess up the whole country.

[GetFonsekaOut]

@NoEalamInSL YOu are still quoting from wrong newspapers and taking things out of context. It was her decision to contact SF on the 12th, she could easily have published what SF said on the 8th without calling him. It's good journalism, she contacted him. But SF had a different tool for the 12th where he said it was a journalist who told him the story. When she said 'it was a mess', what she meant was, what SF was doing was a mess. But the media reported it that way. I was at the courts.

[NoEalamInSL]

@GetFonsekaOut, Yes, she contacted SF on 12th Dec but she said in courts that "late edition" has already published the article without her knowledge on 13th dec (she was the editor). She lied, she wouldnt have published the story on 13th dec but on 20th dec if she hadnt contacted SF on 12th Dec. But she did contact SF on 12th dec, clarified the story was not fromSF but she published the story on 13th dec as it was origined frm SF. She said it was a mess, her mess became a mess of the country!

[GetFonsekaOut]

@NoEalamInSL She conducted the interview on the 8th and on the 12th she decided to call Fonseka. On the 8th he didn't mention about a third party journalist, but on the 12th when she phoned he had said, he got it from a journalist. Read either the court papers or the 'right' newspaper. There is a war among media persons in this case and each report the way they want. It may have hurt your political beliefs but yes sometimes truth hurts!

[NoEalamInSL]

@GetFonsekaOut

"..her husband LW and FJ were not a couple.."?

Article was published before calrification..from courts:

"FJ: I contacted Gen. Fonseka on December 12 and was told that he had received that information from a journalist.

NL: Aren’t you telling us a lie? Although you assured us that you wouldn’t have carried the article without a clarification from SF, the City Edition of The Sunday Leader published the interview without any reference to a journalist being the source" Get a life

[GetFonsekaOut]

@pamela2770 yes agree. But I am so surprised her English is so bad. I thought she would be like an English woman, but far from it.

[GetFonsekaOut]

@NoEalamInSL Practise what you preach.her husband Lasantha Wickramathunga and Fredrica Janz were not a couple, she only worked in his newspaper. Secondly, she reported what Fonseka said to her. After the interview, it was she who decided to call Fonseka just to check whether he agreed with the news she wrote. Then only Fonseka said, it was a journalist said to him. On her part, she has done a magnificient job, but it was Fonseka who is trying to cash in from the war victory.

[NoEalamInSL]

I respect Fredrica Janz and her husband Lasantha Wickramathunga but it is unfortunate that both were sidelined towards UNP and criticising for the sake of criticising. When report as professional journalists they must report with responsibility, show credibility & hold authencity of facts. "Gota ordered" headline messed up whole Sri Lanka. She was accused reporting "Gota OrderedF" article without clarifying sources "the interview without any reference to a journalist being the source"-lawyer

[pamela2770]

she is very hot