The Media Fest, Sri Lanka’s premier gathering of media professionals, is again, bringing collectively a number of the business’s main voices to debate the traits, applied sciences, and transformations redefining journalism and content material creation.
The Sri Lanka-India Media Friendship Affiliation (SLIMFA) is ready to host the second version of the a lot awaited competition on 11 July 2026 at Taj Samudra Colombo.
Constructing on the success of its inaugural version, Media Fest 2026 will give attention to the theme “Staying Related in a Altering World,” exploring how journalism and media can adapt to speedy technological, financial, and viewers shifts whereas upholding the core values of accuracy, independence, verification, public curiosity, and belief.
The competition will function main journalists, editors, media executives, digital creators, lecturers, and business specialists from Sri Lanka and India. Discussions will cowl a variety of matters, together with viewers engagement, expertise and journalism, misinformation and fact-checking, digital transformation, media sustainability, rising storytelling codecs, and the way forward for information consumption.
By means of keynote periods, panel discussions, and networking alternatives, Media Fest 2026 goals to foster significant conversations on the challenges and alternatives going through the media business in the present day.
The occasion is open to journalists, editors, publishers, broadcasters, content material creators, media college students, communication professionals, and anybody with an curiosity within the evolving media panorama.
SLIMFA, which was inaugurated in Might 2024, was established to strengthen media ties between Sri Lanka and India. Since its inception, the affiliation has organized a variety of initiatives, together with discussions, roundtables, {and professional} exchanges centered on key points shaping the media business.
In a media panorama outlined by fixed change, Media Fest 2026 will convey collectively these navigating its future. Keep tuned for programme updates, speaker bulletins, and registration particulars.
