Samantha’s 30 years service to art recognised by Raigam
View(s):By Susitha R. Fernando
Renowned journalist and the Features Editor of our sister newspaper Lankadeepa, Samantha Yahampath was honoured at the recently concluded ‘21st Raigam Tele’es 2024’ tele awards ceremony. Yahampath was awarded with the ‘Special Tribute Award’, the first ever such award given to a journalist for his service to cinema, television industry and art for more than three decades. This is the first time that a print media was recognised for its service by the Raigam Award.
One of the senior most Features Editors in the indsutry and also the Editor of the ‘Rasavindana’ – Cinema and Art Supplement, Samantha Yahampath was appointed as a member of the State Cinema Advisory Board (SCAB) last year.
As a journalist for over 30 years, Samantha has been writing on topics relating to cinema and arts in Sri Lanka. He has also served as a jury member for the State Short Film Festival and has been a member of the Teledrama Survey Committee
of the Independent Television Network (ITN). He has obtained diplomas on Mass Media Communications from the Universities of Colombo
and Sri Jayawardenepura.
A student from Sri Subodhi National School in Battaramulla, Samantha joined ‘Yowun Janatha’ of Lake House as a young reporter in 1989. Later in September 1991, he joined the first staff of the Daily Lankadeepa and worked as a feature writer under Mahinda Dalugodaarachchi.While celebrating 30 years in journalism, Samantha has dedicated nearly 25 years to handling the arts pages of the newspaper. At present he is the longest serving editor of the arts pages amongst all national Sinhala newspaper in Sri Lanka.
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