Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)
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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Wijeya Newspapers Ltd |
Editor | Champika Liyanaarachchi |
Founded | 1996 |
Political alignment | Progressive |
Language | English |
Headquarters | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Website | http://www.dailymirror.lk |
The Daily Mirror is a daily English-language newspaper published in Colombo, Sri Lanka, by Wijeya Newspapers Ltd. Its Sunday counterpart is the Sunday Times.[1]
History and circulation figures
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The newspaper started in 1996 as a weekly and became a daily in 1999.[citation needed] The Daily Mirror uses modern facilities for news gathering, page composition and printing and has the highest circulation among English-language daily newspapers in Sri Lanka, with an estimated circulation of around 30,000 copies and a readership of about 150,000.[citation needed][1]
Daily Mirror Breaking News
A revamped Daily Mirror Website provides a section of round-the-clock "Breaking News" and user comments on all current happenings making the headlines, has recorded an average of 2 million hits per day.[citation needed]
Traffic
The Daily Mirror Website is ranked the number one newspaper Website in Sri Lanka by Alexa.[2]
The site has recorded hits from diverse countries and the top five include United States, United Kingdom, Sri Lanka, Australia and Canada.[citation needed]
Daily supplements
- (Source: "About Us" at Daily Mirror)
- Mondays through Saturdays
- Financial Times
- Life
- Tuesdays
- W@W – Women at work
- Thursdays
- Little Enquirer[3]
See also
- Lankadeepa, Sinhala-language sister newspaper
Notes
- ^ a b "Sri Lanka Press, Media, TV, Radio, Newspapers" (Web). PressReference.com. Advameg Inc. 2007. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
Of the 23 important newspapers, 10 are dailies, 4 in Sinhala, and 3 each in Tamil and English; 11 are Sunday editions, 5 in Sinhala, 2 in Tamil, and 4 in English; 1 publication appears only on Wednesdays and another only on Saturdays. Circulation figures are not made public by the newspaper groups because of the acute competition in advertising. Comparing and collating the data given by The Editor and Publisher International Yearbook (1999) and the Paris-based World Association of Newspapers, the total circulation of all newspapers may be estimated at 587,500 for daily newspapers and 1,415,000 for Sunday newspapers with an estimated total readership of about 3.5 times those numbers. Of these, two newspapers have a circulation exceeding 250,000; three between 100,000 and 140,000; two between 80,000 and 90,000; one over 45,000; two over 20,000 and three below 20,000. The highest circulation is in Sinhala newspapers, at 389,000 daily and 901,000 on Sundays, with Lankadipa and Dinamana closely competing with each other, while the Sunday editions of Silumina and Divayana Irida claim the highest honors. The English newspapers come next, with a total circulation estimated at 132,000 daily with the Daily News having the highest circulation and 407,000 on Sundays. The Sunday Observer, Sunday Leader, and Sunday Island compete for the highest circulation among Sunday papers. The Tamil papers have roughly a combined circulation of 66,500 daily and 107,000 on Sundays, with Thinakaran and Veerakesari and their Sunday editions competing with each other.
- ^ Website "Traffic Comparisons" (Web). Alexa: The Web Information Company. Amazon.com. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
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External links
- Daily Mirror – Official Website
- Sunday Times – Official Website
- Wijeya Newspapers Ltd – Official Website (Common Library)
- Daily News – Official Website of Sri Lanka's National Newspaper, published by The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd.