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'''''Goa Today''''' is a monthly magazine published from [[Panjim]] ([[Panaji]]), the state-capital of [[Goa]], [[India]], since 1966,<ref name=toi/><ref>ISSN 0017-1484 Currently published by Goa Publications, see [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/1590684.html Hathi Trust record].</ref> featuring news, literature and local issues.<ref>{{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}}</ref> ''Goa Today'' is considered the "grand-daddy" of all monthly magazines in Goa.<ref name="Noronha">{{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}}</ref> It was founded by Francisco Damasceno do Rosario Dantas and former joint-editor of ''[[Navhind Times]]'', [[Lambert Mascarenhas]], who was awarded the [[Gomant Vibhushan Award]], the highest civilian award of Goa in 2014.<ref name=toi>{{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}}</ref>

The main problem facing the magazine in the 2010s is fostering enough advertising to meet publication costs.<ref name="Noronha" />

It was founded by [[Lambert Mascarenhas]],<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Qasim, Seeme|year=2007|title=Inward Journeys|journal=India International Centre Quarterly|volume=34|issue=1|pages=84–96|jstor=23006049}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|author=Nazareth, Peter|year=1985|title=Alienation, nostalgia, and homecoming: editing an anthology of Goan literature|journal=World Literature Today|volume=59|issue=3|pages=374–382|jstor=40140844}}</ref> now a [[centurion]]<ref name="Noronha" /><ref>{{Cite news |title=To-be-centenarian Lambert Mascarenhas |date=August 2014 |newspaper=GoaCom |url=http://www.goacom.com/snapshots/1188-to-be-centenarian-lambert-mascarenhas |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6RmRUomxX?url=http://www.goacom.com/snapshots/1188-to-be-centenarian-lambert-mascarenhas |archivedate=12 August 2014 |url-status=dead |access-date=12 August 2014 }}</ref> and F. D. Dantas. During Mascarenhas' and Dantas' ownership, Norman Dantas was first Associate editor and then as Executive editor for the magazine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://saligaoserenade.com/2010/09/norman-dantas-a-journalist-par-excellence/|title=Norman Dantas – A Journalist Par Excellence|last=Mascarenhas|first=Fr. Nascimento|website=Saligao Serenade}}</ref> When ''Goa Today'' was sold to Salgaocar Mining Industries, Mascarenhas was followed as editor by [[Vaman Sardesai]], who left in 1987 to become India's [[ambassador]] to [[Angola]].<ref>{{Cite news|author=de Souza, Teotónio Rosário|date=12 November 2008|title=Dishonouring Our Freedom Fighters|newspaper=The Herald|location=Goa|volume=108|issue=317|page=8|url=http://recil.grupolusofona.pt/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10437/523/Herald_121108.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812193043/http://recil.grupolusofona.pt/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10437/523/Herald_121108.pdf|archivedate=12 August 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> He was followed as editor by the poet-journalist [[Manohar Shetty]], who maintained the high standards and promoted Goan literature while keeping the balance between history, political issues and literature.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Vinayak Naik is the current editor.<ref name="Noronha" />

In the mid 1980s, ''Goa Today'' was purchased by the [[Salgaocar Mining Industries]], now part of the [[V. M. Salgaocar]] group of companies, which also own the [[Salgaocar Football Club]] of Goa.<ref name="Noronha"/>

==References==
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==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}}

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>BrownHairedGirl at 06:04, 2 April 2021