Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka)
Sunday Observer is a weekly English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka, published every Sunday. It is part of Lake House, the government-owned Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited, which also publishes the Daily News, Dinamina, Silumina, Thinakaran, and Sunday Thinakaran.
The paper traces its roots to 1834, when it began as The Observer and Commercial Advertiser. It later became the Colombo Observer, and in 1923, after D. R. Wijewardena bought it and formed the Lake House network, it became the Ceylon Observer. The Sunday Observer operates today as part of this group and, in 1973, the company was nationalised.
Today the Sunday Observer is published in print (broadsheet) and online. The editor is Pramod De Silva, and the headquarters are in Colombo. The paper had a circulation of about 175,000 copies per week in February 2012.
Content includes news, features, sports, business, education, and lifestyle, with supplements such as News Features, Features, Sports, Education, Marriage Proposals, Muse Magazine, and Observer Junior. It also runs annual competitions like the Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year.
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