8 May 2009

Sri Lanka camps report attracts interest online

As the week comes to a close, we notice Nick Paton Walsh’s report on a camp in Sri Lanka has consistently been the most-watched video on the Channel 4 News website since its broadcast on Tuesday – a likely reflection of the large international appetite for news from the country.

The report features the first independently filmed pictures from the internment camps set up by the Sri Lankan government to house Tamils who have fled the country’s civil war.

External blog posts about the report include these from Amnesty International USA’s Jim McDonald and the Canadian National Post’s Jonathan Kay.

Channel 4 New’s international editor, Lindsey Hilsum, wrote on World News Blog last month on the difficulty of reporting from the frontline in Sri Lanka.