| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Times of Ceylon Limited |
| Founded | 29 October 1947 |
| Language | Sinhala |
| City | Colombo |
| Country | Ceylon |
| 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Ceylon Year Book 1956 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Ceylon. p. 190.
- ^ a b "A Sinhala newspaper is born". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 21 October 2007.
- ^ Ceylon Year Book 1968 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Ceylon. pp. 317–318.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Sri Lanka Year Book 1975 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. pp. 349–351.
- ^ Sri Lanka Year Book 1977 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. pp. 365–366.
- ^ Daniel, Smriti (3 June 2012). "The humble 'J' in the Wijeya wheel". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka).
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