Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Tabloid |
Owner(s) | Times of Ceylon Limited |
Founded | 1961 |
Language | English |
Ceased publication | 1979 |
City | Colombo |
Country | Ceylon |
Sister newspapers | |
OCLC number | 220071729 |
The Ceylon Daily Mirror was an English language daily newspaper in Ceylon published by Times of Ceylon Limited (TOCL). [1] [2] Modelled on the British Daily Mirror, it was founded in 1961 and was published from Colombo. [1] [2] [3] In 1966 it had an average net sales of 17,705. [2] It had an average circulation of 17,217 in 1970, 15,995 in 1973 and 8,500 in 1976. [4] [5] [6] It was renamed Daily Mirror in the mid-1970s. [4] [6] It ceased publication in 1979. [1]
TOCL was nationalised by the Sri Lankan government in August 1977. [1] The state-run TOCL faced financial and labour problems and on 31 January 1985 it and its various publications closed down. [1] Ranjith Wijewardena, chairman of Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (ANCL) before it was nationalised in July 1973, bought the trade names and library of the TOCL publications in 1986. [1] [7] Wijewardena's company, Wijeya Newspapers, subsequently started various newspapers using the names of former TOCL publications. [1] The Midweek Mirror, later renamed The Daily Mirror, started publishing in 1995. [1]