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He is the Chairman of Powerhouse (Pvt) Ltd., the holding company of Derana, Sri Lanka's preeminent media offering with a wide presence across multiple platforms. He also established Liberty Publishers (Pvt) Limited, which is the publisher of two national broadsheets – the Sinhala language daily "Aruna" and the weekly English language "The Morning".
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But it was interesting to note diversity in coverage in different language publications, even within one publishing house. The Morning's sister paper, the Sinhala language Aruna, for instance, was more circumspect in its coverage, as media critics noted (both these papers are also owned by Dilith Jayaweera, and are distinct from Derana TV)...
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Journalists of the three newspapers owned by Liberty Publishers, namely 'Aruna', 'The Morning' and 'Thamilan' have won big at the event.
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