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Daily Mirror’s Kamanthi heads to MASCOM in India for post graduate course
View(s):Kamanthi Wickrama-singhe of Daily Mirror left this week, as the eighth Lakshman Kadirgamar journalism scholar, for a post graduate study course in mass media at MASCOM, the prestigious journalism academy in India, managed by the Malayala Manorama Group.
Kamanthi Wickramasinghe
Lakshman Kadirgamar
Ms Wickramasinghe, 25, was the recipient of the 2014 Denzil Peiris Young Reporter of The Year Award, at the Journalism Awards For Excellence Programme jointly conducted by the Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lanka Press Institute.
She is an M.A. final year student in Mass Communication at the University of Kelaniya and graduated with a B.Sc in Psychology from the Missouri University of Science and Technology. A recipient of the Michael Konig Young Journalism Bursary 2017 at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, she was awarded an Appreciation for Outstanding Media Contributions to the National HIV Response by UNAIDS, Sri Lanka.
Ms Wickramasinghe will be under the supervision of Prof Thomas Oommen, one of India’s most respected media academics while at MASCOM.
The Lakshman Kadirgamar journalism scholarship is presented annually to a young Sri Lankan journalist by the Lakshman Kadirigamar Foundation in partnership with The Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka, the Sri Lanka Press Institute and the Malayala Manorama Group, in memory of the late Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka.