Good press changed AngryPages.
On April 9, 2026, Daily Mirror — one of Sri Lanka’s leading newspapers and the country’s Most Popular English Newspaper 2025 — featured AngryPages.
Daily Mirror is published by Wijeya Newspapers, Sri Lanka’s largest newspaper circulation group.
The story was titled:
Sri Lanka should start exporting stories, ideas and intellectual property
Read the article ↗A major credibility breakthrough.
The feature put AngryPages in front of a mass audience.
We spoke with the newspaper’s owner, its Features Editor, and journalist Kamanthi, who interviewed Lehan for the story.
Before the article, we often had to explain what AngryPages was.
After it ran, people were coming to us already knowing the company.
That changed things.
The idea they noticed was bigger than publishing.
AngryPages began with a simple problem.
Lehan had written more than 8 million words online, but turning years of writing into something permanent — and something that could actually earn — was difficult.
That became the idea behind AngryPages:
The Daily Mirror story described AngryPages as a California-based publishing platform built with Sri Lankan talent and aimed at larger international markets.
Turn stories, experience and intellectual property into products the world can buy.
Export stories, not just labour.
Sri Lanka already exports talent.
But too often, people have to leave the country before their knowledge becomes globally valuable.
We believe there is another export: intellectual property.
Stories. Experience. Research. Business knowledge. Ideas. Archives. Books.
A person in Sri Lanka should be able to create something once, sell it internationally and earn in dollars without having to migrate.
That was one of the central ideas behind the Daily Mirror feature.
An intellectual property piggy bank.
That is how Lehan described the idea in the interview.
Years of writing, photographs, memories, expertise and ideas should not simply disappear into old social-media posts.
They can become assets.
Something you own. Something people can buy. Something that can keep earning.
We learned first-hand how valuable PR can be.
There was an AngryPages before the Daily Mirror story. And there was AngryPages after it.
The difference was credibility.
The coverage led to proposals, introductions and people asking to work with us.
We did not accept everybody.
We selected several people and businesses we genuinely believed we could help — and some became real AngryPages clients.
Good journalism made people take the company seriously.
That matters even more in a country that needs people to earn.
Sri Lanka has spent years worrying about foreign earnings, opportunity and brain drain.
So the important part of the Daily Mirror story was never simply: “Here is a startup.”
The more interesting question was: What if Sri Lankan knowledge itself could become an export?
If somebody has a story, expertise or intellectual property that another person somewhere in the world will pay for, geography becomes less important.
They do not necessarily need to leave home.
They need a way to package it, publish it, sell it and get paid.
That is the problem AngryPages is trying to solve.
They gave the idea a chance.
When money, credibility and economic opportunity matter, ideas have to do more than sound good.
They have to create value for real people.
By giving this idea serious space, Daily Mirror helped put a bigger proposition in front of the public:
Sri Lankans can earn globally from what they know, what they create and what they own.
That is bigger than AngryPages.
It is a bet on Sri Lankan intellectual property.
And it was printed.
Daily Mirror · April 9, 2026
Good PR can change what happens next.
For AngryPages, one newspaper feature brought recognition, credibility, proposals, introductions and clients.
We learned what visibility can do.
That is also why AngryPages takes discovery seriously. Work that meets our standards can earn Featured status and stronger discovery across AngryPages.
Visibility should mean more than simply being uploaded somewhere.
We know its value because we saw the before and after ourselves.
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