{"id":45241,"date":"2012-06-14T22:07:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T22:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=45241"},"modified":"2012-06-15T11:13:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T11:13:11","slug":"senior-editors-of-ceylon-today-resigned-in-a-battle-over-editorial-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/senior-editors-of-ceylon-today-resigned-in-a-battle-over-editorial-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Editors Of Ceylon Today Resigned In A Battle Over Editorial Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Colombo Telegraph &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/senior-editors-of-ceylon-today-resigned-in-a-battle-over-editorial-independence\/ceylon_today\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45244\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-45244\" title=\"ceylon_today\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ceylon_today.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a>Several\u00a0other editors of Ceylon Today \u00a0resigned, in a battle over editorial independence and to show their solidarity to sacked staffers. Senior editors including it\u2019s deputy editors Dharisha Bastians and Wlison Gnadass, journalist Rasika Jayakody and journalist Dinidu de Alwis. The move came after the sacking of it\u2019s editorial director Lalith Alahakkon and chief graphic artist Wasntha Siriwardena. The news paper is owned by the opposition MP Tiran Alles.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile press freedom activist\u00a0\u00a0Hana Ibrahim who has not resigned over editorial\u00a0independence issue is to appoint as the editor in chief. She is\u00a0the former secretary of the media rights\u00a0organisation, the Free Media Movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":45244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Senior Editors Of Ceylon Today Resigned In A Battle Over Editorial Independence - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/senior-editors-of-ceylon-today-resigned-in-a-battle-over-editorial-independence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senior Editors Of Ceylon Today Resigned In A Battle Over Editorial Independence - 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