Media
Media Barons and Heads of Media Organizations
- Sepala Gunasena - Chairman/Managing Director of MD Gunasena and Sons Ltd and Chairman/Managing Director of Independent Newspapers Ltd - the publishers of the Sun, Weekend and Davasa. Winner of the much coveted Lady Astor Award, of the prestigious Fleet Street based Commonwealth Press Union.
- Dr Sarath Amunugama - Chairman of Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd during the D.B. Wijetunga Presidency; former Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of State under Hon. Anandatissa De Alwis in the Dudley Senanayake Government of 1965-70. One-time Director of Government Information. Completed PhD in Mass Communication at The Sorbonne
- Dr. Seevali Ratwatte- Chairman Upali Newspapers Ltd and one time Chairman of the Commonwealth Press Union (Sri Lanka chapter)
- Hilmy Ahamed - Chairman/CEO - Young Asia Television Ltd
- Nahil Wijesuriya - Founder Chairman, ETV
- S.B. Yatawara - Director, Times of Ceylon
- Laksiri Wickremage- Chairman Derana TV
- Harris Hulugalle- founder - Chairman, Leader Publications (Pvt) Ltd
- Tikiri Kobbekaduwa- former CEO, Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd.
Editors-in-Chief
- BHS Jayewardene- former Editor of the Ceylon Daily News and Editor in Chief, Editorial Director - Associated newspapers of Ceylon Ltd. Asiaweek Staff Correspondent in Colombo
- Ajith Samaranayake - Editor, Sunday Island, Editor, Sunday Observer Editor in Chief of English publications at Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd. First holder of the joint record for the youngest-ever Chief Editor in the Sri Lankan media at 36 years in 1990. Described by media giant Reuters as one of the three best editorial writers in Asia. The best-ever Parliamentary Lobby Correspondent in the history of Sri Lankan media. First winner of the Trinity Media Prize. Both English and Sinhala Editor of the College Magazine, Captain of English and Sinhala Debating teams, Chief Curator of the Library Council and Deputy Senior Prefect in the centenary year in 1972.
- Arjuna Ranawana - Editor-in-chief of the Daily News; Editor in Chief,Sun; Staff Reporter, and within the first batch of print media journalists to be trained in television journalism, Rupavahini News Editor/ Producer, SLRC Presidential Reporter, Asiaweek Regional Editor in Islamabad and later New Delhi (overlooking Bombay, Islamabad and Colombo) and Kuala Lumpur. News Director– MTV, and Director of the College of Journalism of the Sri Lanka Press Institute. Currently, News Manager - Omni Television- Alberta, Canada
- Bandula Jayasekara - Former Editor in Chief of the Daily News, Director of Information – Ministry of External Affairs and now Director-General of the President’s Media Division
- C. Drieberg - former Editor of the Ceylon Observer
- H.A.J. Hulugalle - former Editor of the Ceylon Daily News, author, Ambassador to Italy & Greece and former Head of the Ceylon Information Department.
- A. E. Moreira - former Editor of the Times of Ceylon
- R.B. Tammita - former Editor of the Times of Ceylon
- C.J. Staples - former Editor of the Ceylon Independent
- Dr G. Wijeyewardena - former Editor of The Sun
Desk Editors
- T.B. Marambe – Sports Editor- Times of Ceylon. Cricket Captain, Senior Prefect and Ryde Gold Medalist in 1938.
- Ruwan Godage - Features Editor of the Daily News
- Brian Thomas- former Sports Director and Sports Anchor- MTV, Cricket Commentator- ESPN and now Media Manager - Sri Lanka Cricket.
- Rangi Akbar- Deputy Editor- (Sports) - Daily Mirror and Sunday Times
- lal Gunasekera- former Sports Editor- Sunday Observer and now News Editor - The Island
- Bandula Molligoda- Sports Editor – Dinamina
- Wilson Gnanadass – former News Editor- Sunday Leader and Special Assignments Editor – Nation on Sunday
- Ranil Prematilleke- former Sports Editor-The Sunday Leader and now Legal Consultant to Wijeya Newspapers Ltd
- Ravi Ladduwahetty- incumbent Features Editor- The Island. Former Business Editor- Daily News, founder Deputy Editor- Daily Mirror Financial Times, Deputy Features Editor Daily Mirror, Founder Associate Business Editor of The Nation, Presidential Reporter- The Island and Daily News, Parliamentary Lobby Correspondent, The Nation, former Sri Lanka Country Editor of Asian Tribune. First Sri Lankan Associate Member of the Commonwealth Press Union and second Sri Lankan Member of the Commonwealth Journalists Association.
- Eustace Rulach - Sports Editor Ceylon Daily News (Cricket Captain and Lion 1951 when Trinity last won the big match against St.Anthony's College Kandy, 35 years prior to Triple Lion Thushara Weerasooriya's team in 1986.)
- Anosh Ahamath- formerly Editorial Staff- Sunday Times – later Agence France-Presse (AFP)- Colombo
- Mohan Samarasinghe - former Daily News Journalist, later Reuters - Colombo and former Media Attaché – Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada
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Famous quotes containing the word media:
“The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.”
—Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
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