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The newspaper's coverage includes politics, sports, entertainment and military. The weekend newspaper, named Irida Lankadeepa , is published on Sundays. Irida Lankadeepa won the SLIM-Nielsen People's Awards in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010 as Sri Lanka's most popular weekend newspaper.
The List of newspapers in Sri Lanka lists every daily and non-daily news publication currently operating in Sri Lanka. The list includes information on whether it is distributed daily or non-daily, and who publishes it. For those newspapers that are also published online, the website is given.
Vanitha Viththi. List of newspapers. 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 ...
Lankadeepa was unique at the time because it was original journalism in Sinhala. At that time the Dinamina, which was the only other Sinhala daily, was a translation of the Ceylon Daily News. Lankadeepa had its own reporters, was the first to give its reporters bylines in the stories they reported. It devised a special Sinhala font, and created ...
He also contributed to the success of the popular newspaper, Lankadeepa in 1991. He was the founder of the free media movement in Sri Lanka. [5] In 1990s, he founded the popular newspaper Lakbima. [4] He was the editor of the Kumari newspaper published on May 9, 1979. [13]
List of newspapers. 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]
Wijeya Newspapers Limited (WNL) is a Sri Lankan media company which publishes a number of national newspapers and magazines. Formerly known as Wijeya Publications Limited, WNL was founded in 1979 by Ranjith Wijewardene, son of media mogul D. R. Wijewardena. [1][2] Ranjith Wijewardene had been chairman of Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited ...
divaina.com. Divaina ( Sinhala: දිවයින) is a Sinhala language daily newspaper published by the Upali Newspapers in Sri Lanka. A sister newspaper of The Island , Divaina was established in 1981. [1] Its Sunday edition is the Sunday Divaina. The daily newspaper currently has a circulation of 156,000 and its Sunday edition, 340,000 per ...