Rajpal Abeynayake
Rajpal Abeynayake is the Editor in Chief of the Daily News, assuming duties on October 2012. He has been working as a journalist since 1984 and is an attorney-at-law.
Abeynayake was a former editor of the Sunday Observer and the founder Editor of Sunday Lakbima News, which he developed into an award-winning national newspaper during a span of five and half years. He has been adjudged Editor’s Guild columnist of the year.
He was educated at S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia, The University of Missouri and the Sri Lanka Law College where he received the prestigious Hector Jayewardene gold medal for address to the jury.