Wijeya Newspapers

Wijeya Newspapers Ltd
Company type	Private
Industry	Mass media
Founded	1979; 45 years ago
Founder	Ranjit Wijewardene
Headquarters	Colombo, Sri Lanka
Area served	Sri Lanka
Key people	Ranjit Wijewardene (Chairman) Sujan Wijewardene (Deputy Chairman)
Website	wijeyanewspapers.lk

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 before it was taken over by the government in July 1973.^[3]

Ranjith Wijewardene bought the trade names and library of the Times of Ceylon Limited (TOCL) group after it closed down in January 1985.^[2] He subsequently started various newspapers using the names of former TOCL publications: Irida Lankadeepa (1986), Sunday Times (1987), Lankadeepa (1991) and Midweek Mirror (1995).^[2]^[4] The Midweek Mirror became the Daily Mirror in 1999. Other newspapers, magazines and web sites owned by WNL include Ada, Bilindu, Daily FT, GO: Guys Only, Hi!! Magazine, LW (Lanka Woman), Mirror Sports, Pariganaka, Sirikatha, Tamil Mirror, Tharunaya, Vijey and Wijeya.

References

^ "Wijeya Newspapers". Wijeya Newspapers.
^ ^a ^b ^c Banerjee, Indrajit; Logan, Stephen, eds. (2008). Asian Communication Handbook 2008. Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. pp. 448–449. ISBN 9789814136105.
^ "News". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 16 June 2003.
^ Ubayasiri, Kasun; Brady, Linda (2003). "One Temple, One Bomb, and Three Lines of Political Narrative". ejournlist.com.au. 3 (2). Central Queensland University: 5.

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[1] "Wijeya Newspapers". Wijeya Newspapers.

[ACH-2] Banerjee, Indrajit; Logan, Stephen, eds. (2008). Asian Communication Handbook 2008. Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. pp. 448–449. ISBN 9789814136105.

[3] "News". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 16 June 2003.

[4] Ubayasiri, Kasun; Brady, Linda (2003). "One Temple, One Bomb, and Three Lines of Political Narrative". ejournlist.com.au. 3 (2). Central Queensland University: 5.

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