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Lankadeepa (Ceylon)

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This article is about the defunct newspaper published by Times of Ceylon Limited. For the current newspaper published by Wijeya Newspapers, see Lankadeepa (Sri Lanka).
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. ^ a b c d e f g 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. ^ a b Ceylon Year Book 1956 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Ceylon. p. 190.
  3. ^ a b "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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