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ST journalist on Kadir schol to MASCOM
View(s):The sixth Lakshman Kadirgamar journalism scholar, Ms. Aanya Piyari Wipulasena of the Sunday Times left this week to follow a post graduate diploma course at MASCOM, the prestigious mass communication college in India.
The scholarship is given by the Lakshman Kadirgamar Foundation in partnership with MASCOM in memory of the late Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka to the recipient of the Denzil Peiris Young Reporter of the Year Award that is presented at the annual Journalism Awards for Excellence programme. This programme is conducted jointly by The Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lanka Press Institute.
MASCOM is managed by the Kerala-based Malayala Manorama Group, one of India’s biggest newspaper houses. Ms. Wipulasena will be under the tutelage of the distinguished Professor Thomas Oommen, who has trained a generation of Indian journalists, first at the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai and now at MASCOM.
SriLankan Airlines is providing the air passage for the young journalist.
Ms. Wipulasena, 24, schooled at Princeton International School and Sussex College in Ratnapura and at Visakha Vidyalaya in Colombo. She obtained a credit pass in the Diploma course of the Sri Lanka College of Journalism and holds a B.Sc degree in Psychology from the Karnataka State Open University. She has been with the Sunday Times since 2011.