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Gagani Weerakoon

Investigative journalist/senior lobby correspondent and media trainer. I am the Deputy Editor of Ceylon Today Newspaper. I have been covering a range of areas varying from politics, child and women affairs, labour rights to the environment for 17 years and one of the very few women political columnists in the country. First Sri Lankan winner of South Asian Inquirer Award by Thomson Foundation in 2013 (Print Media category) and the recipient of the Mervyn de Silva Best Journalist of the Year in 2010 with an honourable mention awarded by the Editor’s Guild of Sri Lanka.