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Oxford Today Editor Dr. Richard Lofthouse Categories Alumni Frequency Triannual Circulation c.150,000 First issue 1988 Company Future plc[1] Country United Kingdom Language English Website www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk ISSN 0954-1306 Oxford Today: The University Magazine is a magazine for the alumni of Oxford University.[2]
According to its website, the magazine is distributed free to around 150,000 alumni around the world and also by subscription.[2] It appears three times a year, with the issues coinciding with the three Oxford academic terms of Michaelmas, Hilary, and Trinity. The editor is Dr Richard Lofthouse, and it is published by Future plc on behalf of the University of Oxford.[1]
Articles cover subjects such as current affairs,[3] history,[4] literature,[5] as well as the University itself.[6] Contributors and interviewees have included many Oxford alumni from different walks of life, such as the politician Michael Heseltine,[7] the author and playwright Alan Bennett[8] and the comedian Terry Jones of Monty Python fame, for example.[9]
The magazine was previously published by Wiley-Blackwell. In April 2010, it was reported that a new publisher would be taking over the magazine, resulting in the job of then-current editor Greg Neale being placed under review; this caused concern among members of the publication's editorial review board, some of whom expressed the view that the Oxford administration was seeking to reduce the magazine's independence.[10][11][12] The magazine is now published by FuturePlus, a division of Future Publishing Limited, on behalf of the University of Oxford.
References
- ^ a b Blueprint: Staff magazine for the University of Oxford, October 2010, p.2.
- ^ a b Contact details, Oxford Today, University of Oxford, UK.
- ^ Andrew Silke (editor), Research on Terrorism: Trends, Achievements and Failures. Cass Series on Political Violence, Routledge, 2004. ISBN 978-0714653112. Page 28.
- ^ M. G. Brock and M. C. Curthoys, The History of the University of Oxford: Volume VII: The Nineteenth Century, Part 2. Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0199510177. Page xx.
- ^ Ned Sherrin, Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0199237166. Page 132.
- ^ Paul R. Deslandes, Oxbridge Men: British Masculinity and the Undergraduate Experience, 1850–1920. Indiana University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0253345783. Page 239.
- ^ Alicia Clegg, My time of transformation. Oxford Today, 20(3):64, 2008.
- ^ Greg Neale, The dark and the light. Oxford Today, 21(2):64, 2009.
- ^ Greg Neale, A Python's progress. Oxford Today, 22(2):48, 2010.
- ^ Oxford Today, gone tomorrow, Cherwell, 21 March 2010.
- ^ "Oxford Today, North Korea tomorrow: A brouhaha is brewing at the Oxford alumni magazine, as it comes under pressure to be 'on-message'", The Guardian, April 5, 2010.
- ^ "Changes likely at Oxford Today", New Statesman, April 6, 2010.
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