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The Sunday Leader was an English-language Sri Lankan weekly newspaper published by Leader Publications (Private) Limited. It was founded in 1994 and is published from Colombo. Its sister newspapers are the Iruresa ( Irudina) and the defunct The Morning Leader. Founded by brothers Lasantha Wickrematunge and Lal Wickrematunge, the newspaper is ...
Lankadeepa (Sinhala: ලංකාදීප) is a daily Sri Lankan Sinhala language newspaper which is owned by Wijeya Newspapers. They were established in 1991. [1] The chairman of the organisation is Ranjith Wijewardene, the son of D. R. Wijewardena . [2]
Lankadeepa. Lankadeepa was a Sinhala language daily newspaper in Ceylon published by Times of Ceylon Limited (TOCL). [1] [2] It was founded on 29 October 1947 and was published from Colombo. [1] [2] [3] Initially an evening paper, it became a morning daily on 1 May 1949. [3] In 1966 it had an average net sales of 56,241. [4]
Saman Chandranath Weerasinghe (5 July 1947 – 15 February 2022: සමන් චන්ද්රනාත් වීරසිංහ), was an award-winning Sri Lankan journalist, lyricist, poet, and novelist. [1] Considered one of the most iconic and prolific lyricists ever produced in the country, he contributed to more than 2,000 songs in a ...
Chandraratne Dios Sooriyarachchi Mohotti, (19 June 1913 – 4 September 1964 as Sinhala: චන්ද්රරත්න මානවසිංහ) popularly known as Chandraratne Manawasinghe, was a Sinhala scholar, poet, philosopher and writer. [1] [2] Considered one of the iconic poets in Sinhala poetry, Manawasinghe made several popular ...
Sri Lankadeepa. Sri Lankadeepa was a Sinhala language weekly newspaper in Ceylon published by Times of Ceylon Limited (TOCL). [1] [2] It was founded in 1951 and was published from Colombo. [1] [2] In 1966 it had an average net sales of 118,561. [2] It had an average circulation of 133,093 in 1970, 85,654 in 1973 and 55,000 in 1976.
Bandula Padmakumara. Godewatta Arachchige Bandula Padmakumara ( Sinhala: බන්දුල පද්මකුමාර; 2 June 1950 – 24 February 2022), popularly as Bandula Padmakumara, was a Sri Lankan journalist and television presenter. [1] [2] He was an iconic figure of Sri Lankan media and journalism most notable for the popular ...
Mass media in Sri Lanka. Mass media of Sri Lanka consist of several different types of communications media: television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and Web sites. State and private media operators provide services in the main languages Sinhala, Tamil and English. The government owns two major TV stations, radio networks operated by the Sri ...