Lakshman Kadirgamar journalism scholar leaves for MASCOM study course

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Mandira Wijerathne of the Sunday Observer, the winner of the 2018 Denzil Peiris Young Reporter of the Year Award presented at the annual Journalism Awards for Excellence program, left this week for a study course as the ninth Lakshman Kadirgamar scholar to MASCOM, one of India’s leading journalism academies.

Mandira Wijerathne

Wijerathne, a resident of Badulla, will follow the diploma course at MASCOM under the tutelage of well-known Indian academic Prof. Thomas Oomen.

The Lakshman Kadirgamar Scholarship is offered each year to a young Sri Lankan journalist by MASCOM owners Malayala Manorama in memory of the late Sri Lankan Foreign Minister.

The other sponsors of the scholarship are the Sri Lankan Press Institute and the Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka, which jointly partner the annual Journalism Awards for Excellence program, now in its 20th year, and SriLankan Airlines, which provides the air ticket for the scholar.