Sri Lanka Journalism Awards for Excellence
Year Winner Newspaper
2000 Dasa Hapuwalanage Lakbima
2001 Wasantha Siriwardene Daily Mirror
2003 Wasantha Siriwardena Daily Mirror
2004 Runner-up ( Sinhala ) J. Viroshan Wickramarathne Runner-up ( English ) Lalith Chandana Senanayake Runner-up ( Tamil ) S Yogamoorthy Gnanartha Pradeepaya The Island Thinakkural
2006 Jiffrey Kelaart de Silva Dasa Hapuwalanage Upali Newspapers Lankadeepa
2007 Asanga Indunil Weerasekara Rivira
2009 Wasantha Kanthilal Siriwardena The Nation
Jeffry Michael Kelaart de Silva The Island
2010 Anjana Indrajith Jayaweera Ratnaraja C. Pradeepkumar Lakbima Thinakkural
2011 S Jeyapalan Anjana Indrajith Virakesari Lakbima
2014 Gihan de Chickera Namal Amarasinghe Daily Mirror Tamil Mirror
2015 Jeffrey Ainsley Michael Kelaart P. Shandrasegaram The Island Virakesari
2018 Dhammika Sajith Bandara Ekanayaka Daily Mirror
Other awards -- Merit awards and honourable mention
The Sri Lanka Journalism Awards for Excellence is an awards ceremony held annually in Sri Lanka to recognize the achievements of print media journalists working in the countrys three main languages - Sinhala, Tamil and English. It is the biggest print media awards programme in the country and is the only independent print media awards ceremony that has no affiliations or obligations to the government or any private institutions. In addition to awarding the top achievers of several categories in the print media each year, it also honours those who have served the journalistic profession for more than 40 years with Lifetime Achievement Awards. Each winner receives a trophy made in the shape of the nib of a fountain pen and a certificate. Applicants who do not win a category but have satisfied the standards set by the panel of judges receive merit awards which are only certificates. No cash or other prizes and incentives are offered to the winners. In some years, the winners received other gifts such as mobile phones or tablets along with their awards.