Lankadeepa
TypeDaily newspaper
Owner(s)Times of Ceylon Limited
Founded29 October 1947 (1947-10-29)
LanguageSinhala
CityColombo
CountryCeylon
Sister 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] It had an average circulation of 57,769 in 1970, 33,751 in 1973 and 14,000 in 1976.[5][6][7]

TOCL was nationalised by the Sri Lankan government in August 1977.[1] The state-run TOCL faced financial and labour problems and on 31 January 1985 it and its various publications closed down.[1] Ranjith Wijewardena, chairman of Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (ANCL) before it was nationalised in July 1973, bought the trade names and library of the TOCL publications in 1986.[1][8] Wijewardena's company, Wijeya Newspapers, subsequently started various newspapers using the names of former TOCL publications.[1] Lankadeepa started publishing in 1991.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Karunanayake, Nandana (2008). "18: Sri Lanka". In Banerjee, Indrajit; Logan, Stephen (eds.). Asian Communication Handbook 2008. Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. pp. 446–460. ISBN 9789814136105.
  2. 1 2 Ceylon Year Book 1956 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Ceylon. p. 190.
  3. 1 2 "A Sinhala newspaper is born". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 21 October 2007.
  4. ↑ Ceylon Year Book 1968 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Ceylon. pp. 317–318.
  5. ↑ Wilson, A. Jeyaratnam (2010). Electoral Politics in an Emergent State: The Ceylon General Election of May 1970. Cambridge University Press. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-521-15311-9.
  6. ↑ Sri Lanka Year Book 1975 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. pp. 349–351.
  7. ↑ Sri Lanka Year Book 1977 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. pp. 365–366.
  8. ↑ Daniel, Smriti (3 June 2012). "The humble 'J' in the Wijeya wheel". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka).


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