Vanitha Viththi

The Vanitha Viththi was a Sinhala language weekly newspaper in Ceylon published by Times of Ceylon Limited (TOCL).^[1] It was founded in 1957 and was published from Colombo.^[1] In 1966 it had an average net sales of 23,215.^[1] It had an average circulation of 30,507 in 1973.^[2]

Key Information

Type	Weekly newspaper
Owner(s)	Times of Ceylon Limited
Founded	1957 (1957)
Language	Sinhala
City	Colombo
Country	Ceylon
Sister newspapers	Ceylon Daily Mirror Lankadeepa Morning Times Sri Lankadeepa Sunday Mirror Sunday Times of Ceylon The Times of Ceylon
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TOCL was nationalised by the Sri Lankan government in August 1977.^[3] The state-run TOCL faced financial and labour problems and on 31 January 1985 it and its various publications closed down.^[3]

The magazine's first editor was Eva Ranaweera.^[4]

1. ^ ^{a b c} Ceylon Year Book 1968 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Ceylon. pp. 317–318.
2. ^ Sri Lanka Year Book 1975 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. pp. 349–351.
3. ^ ^{a b} Karunanayake, Nandana (2008). "18: Sri Lanka". In Banerjee, Indrajit; Logan, Stephen (eds.). Asian Communication Handbook 2008. Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. pp. 446–460. ISBN 9789814136105.
4. ^ "Sri Lanka News | Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse Newspapers". archives.dailynews.lk. Retrieved 2021-09-07.

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