Saman Wagaarachchi, new Director Editorial ANCL [January 23 2015]

Veteran media personality and former Dinamina Editor Saman Wagaarachchi has been appointed as the new Editorial Director of the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited, Lake House.

He was one of the founder journalists of the Lakbima newspaper and also served as a Deputy Editor and subsequently the Editor-in-Chief of the same paper.

Wagaarachchi, a front runner in the protests and agitations held to safeguard the freedom of the press held the post of the first Secretary of the Free Media Movement. He has contributed much as a convenor of the Action Committee for Media Freedom in the country.