Colombo (News 1st): Senior journalist Mohan Samaranayake was appointed as the Director-General of Presidential Media and he assumed office yesterday.

With four decades of experience in the field of journalism, Samaranayake served as an Assistant Editor of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation and held the position of News Director of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation for nearly five years.

He later served as the head of the United Nations Information Center in Colombo and for a long time served as the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation.

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