Good bye Louis

Veteran journalist and founding writer, sub editor and columnist of the Daily Mirror Louis Benedict passed away on April 22. Louis celebrated his 77 birthday on April 9. 

While still a teen, he joined the famous ‘The Sun’ and ‘Weekend’ newspapers as a sports reporter in 1966. As a teen, Louis served Sri Lanka’s media for nearly six decades as  writer, sub editor and a strong voice for the voiceless. Having served as sports editor, foreign news editor, chief sub-editor and senior deputy editor of the two now defunct newspapers, Louis joined our sister newspaper the Sunday Times in 1991, and also worked as a sub editor for the then ‘Mid-week Mirror’ (1996) which later changed to a daily, ‘Daily Mirror’.