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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Goa_Today > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Goa_Today.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Today > Source revision: 1350041094 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Italics title}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Goa Today | logo = | logo_size = | image_file = Goa Today Magazine copies (cropped).jpg | image_size = 300px | image_alt = | image_caption = Copies of the magazine | editor = | editor_title = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = Politics, culture | frequency = Monthly | circulation = | publisher = | founder = | founded = 1966 | firstdate = 1966 | finaldate = 2021 | company = | country = India | based = [Panaji](/source/Panaji), Goa | language = English | website = | issn = | oclc = }} '''''Goa Today''''' was an English monthly magazine published from [Panaji](/source/Panaji), [Goa](/source/Goa), India, since 1966,ISSN 0017-1484 Currently published by Goa Publications, see [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/1590684.html HathiTrust record]. featuring news, literature and local issues.{{Cite book|author=Harding, Paul|year=2003|title=Lonely Planet: Goa|publisher=Lonely Planet|location= Footscray, Victoria|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=cmO6M63ISKYC&pg=PA47 47]|isbn=978-1-74059-139-3}} ''Goa Today'' is considered the "grand-daddy" of all monthly magazines in Goa.{{Cite journal|author=Noronha, Frederick|date=24 March 2014|title=The state of Goa's magazine market: Impressive or depressive? |journal=Indian Printer and Publisher Magazine|volume=36|issue=3|url=http://www.indianprinterpublisher.com/news/The_state_of_4262.html|url-access=subscription}} It was founded by Francisco Damasceno do Rosario Dantas and former joint-editor of ''[The Navhind Times](/source/The_Navhind_Times)'', [Lambert Mascarenhas](/source/Lambert_Mascarenhas).{{cite web|title= Lambert Mascarenhas to get Gomant Vibushan|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Lambert-Mascarenhas-to-get-Gomant-Vibushan/articleshow/35745378.cms |date=30 May 2014| accessdate=16 August 2014|work=The Times of India}} As of 2021, it has "paused" its publication. ==History== The main problem facing the magazine in the 2010s is fostering enough advertising to meet publication costs. During Mascarenhas' and Dantas' ownership, Norman Dantas was first Associate editor and then as Executive editor for the magazine.{{Cite web|url=http://saligaoserenade.com/2010/09/norman-dantas-a-journalist-par-excellence/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605102806/http://saligaoserenade.com/2010/09/norman-dantas-a-journalist-par-excellence/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=June 5, 2016|title=Norman Dantas – A Journalist Par Excellence|last=Mascarenhas|first=Fr. Nascimento|website=Saligao Serenade}} When ''Goa Today'' was sold to Salgaocar Mining Industries, Mascarenhas was followed as editor by [Vaman Sardesai](/source/Vaman_Sardesai), who left in 1987 to become India's [ambassador](/source/ambassador) to [Angola](/source/Angola).{{Cite news|last=de Souza |first=Teotónio Rosário |author-link=Teotónio de Souza|date=12 November 2008|title=Dishonouring Our Freedom Fighters|newspaper=The Herald|location=Goa|volume=108|issue=317|page=8|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279483615|access-date=10 July 2024}} He was followed as editor by the poet-journalist [Manohar Shetty](/source/Manohar_Shetty), who maintained the high standards and promoted Goan literature while keeping the balance between history, political issues and literature.{{Cite book|author=Kumar, Shiv|year=2008|chapter=One Outsider Looks In|editor=Noronha, Frederick|title=Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press|publisher=Goa 1556|location=Goa|pages=141–142|isbn=978-81-905682-0-3}} Vinayak Naik is the current editor. In the mid 1980s, ''Goa Today'' was purchased by the [Salgaocar Mining Industries](/source/Salgaocar_Mining_Industries), now part of the [V. M. Salgaocar](/source/V._M._Salgaocar) group of companies, which also own the [Salgaocar Football Club](/source/Salgaocar_Football_Club) of Goa. The magazine's publication was "paused" in May 2021, citing declining sales due to digital news and the [COVID-19 pandemic in India](/source/COVID-19_pandemic_in_India), with the hope of restoring publication in a different format in the future.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2021-05-27 |title=Goa Today magazine to pause publication from May 31 |url=https://www.heraldgoa.in/goa/goa-today-magazine-to-pause-publication-from-may-31/175376 |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=Herald Goa |language=en}} ==References== {{Reflist|2}} ==External links== * {{Cite web|title=September 2000 issue ''Goa Today''|url=http://www.goa-world.net/goatoday/sep2000/coverstory.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040115132441/http://www.goa-world.net/goatoday/sep2000/coverstory.htm|archivedate=15 January 2004|url-status=dead}} * {{Cite web|title=Photo: ''Goa Today'' Feb 2014 cover|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/52243088@N00/12520341623/in/photostream/|date=2014-02-14}} Category:1966 establishments in Goa, Daman and Diu Category:English-language magazines published in India Category:Monthly magazines published in India Category:News magazines published in India Category:Magazines established in 1966 Category:Mass media in Goa Category:Local interest magazines --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Goa Today](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Today) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Today?action=history)). 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