Bingun Menaka Gamage is the news editor of the Sinhala daily ‘Mawbima’ since 2022. An award winning journalist, he was named RTI Journalist of the Year (2019) and is known for investigative reporting that holds power to account.
The 2007 assault on the news director of the state-owned Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation by Mervyn Silva, and the stalling of the investigation and case, remains a blot on media freedom during and after Mahinda Rajapaksa’s regime
