Lankadeepa

{{Short description|Sri Lankan Sinhala language newspaper}}

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| name = Lankadeepa

| image = Lankadeepa logo.jpg

| image_size = 225px

| type = Daily newspaper

| format = Broadsheet

| foundation = 1991

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| owners = Wijeya Newspapers

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| language = Sinhala

| political = Centrist

| circulation = 285,000 (Daily Lankadeepa)
580,000 (Sunday Lankadeepa)

| headquarters = 8 Hunupitiya Cross Road, Colombo

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| website = http://www.lankadeepa.lk

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Lankadeepa ({{langx|si|ලංකාදීප}}) is a daily Sri Lankan Sinhala language newspaper which is owned by Wijeya Newspapers. They were established in 1991.{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw/newsceylon.htm|title=Newspapers in Ceylon|website=Ancestry.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080616175411/http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw/newsceylon.htm|archive-date=16 June 2008|url-status=dead|accessdate=22 April 2012}} The chairman of the organisation is Ranjith Wijewardene, the son of D. R. Wijewardena.{{cite web|url=http://www.wijeyanewspapers.lk/About_Us.htm|title=Wijeya Newspapers Limited|publisher=Wijeya Newspapers|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925043825/http://www.wijeyanewspapers.lk/About_Us.htm|archive-date=25 September 2011|url-status=dead|accessdate=18 April 2012}} The newspaper's coverage includes politics, sports, entertainment and military. The weekend newspaper, named Irida Lankadeepa, is published on Sundays.

Irida Lankadeepa won the SLIM-Nielsen People's Awards in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010 as Sri Lanka's most popular weekend newspaper.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}} Its sister newspapers are The Sunday Times, The Daily Mirror and Tamil Mirror.{{cite web|url=http://www.pressreference.com/Sa-Sw/Sri-Lanka.html|title=Sri Lanka Press, Media, TV, Radio, Newspapers|date=2007|work=Press Reference|publisher=Advameg Inc.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180513061410/http://www.pressreference.com/Sa-Sw/Sri-Lanka.html|archive-date=13 May 2018|url-status=live|accessdate=11 February 2009}} Daily Lankadeepa has an average circulation of 285,000 while its Sunday edition 580,000.{{Cite magazine|date=July–September 2008|title=Wijeya Newspapers boost its capacity with two more Manugraph Lines|url=http://www.allaboutnewspapers.com/july08/story6.htm|url-status=dead|magazine=All About Newspapers|location=New Delhi|volume=3|issue=3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016145957/http://www.allaboutnewspapers.com/july08/story6.htm|archive-date=16 October 2008|access-date=18 April 2012}}{{cite web | title=Sri Lanka media guide | website=BBC News | date=15 Dec 2010 | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-12000330 | access-date=20 May 2023}}