Oxford Today

{{Short description|Alumni magazine of Oxford University}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}

{{Infobox magazine|title=Oxford Today|

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editor = Dr. Richard Lofthouse |

frequency = Triannual |

circulation = c. 150,000 |

category = Alumni|

company = Future plc[http://www.ox.ac.uk/document.rm?id=1649 Blueprint: Staff magazine for the University of Oxford, October 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611224131/http://www.ox.ac.uk/document.rm?id=1649 |date=11 June 2011 }}, p.2. |

founded = 1988|

finaldate = 2017|

country=United Kingdom|

based = Oxford |

language = English |

website = [http://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/ www.alumni.ox.ac.uk] |

issn = 0954-1306 |

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Oxford Today: The University Magazine was a magazine for the alumni of Oxford University.[http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/contact.shtml Contact details] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814213312/http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/contact.shtml |date=14 August 2010 }}, Oxford Today, University of Oxford, UK.

Oxford Today was a magazine distributed free to around 160,000 alumni around the world. It appeared three times a year, with the issues coinciding with the three Oxford academic terms of Michaelmas, Hilary, and Trinity. The editor was Dr Richard Lofthouse, and it was published by Future plc on behalf of the University of Oxford.

Articles covered subjects such as current affairs,Andrew Silke (editor), [https://books.google.com/books?id=rSpfNJQ4CbAC Research on Terrorism: Trends, Achievements and Failures]. Cass Series on Political Violence, Routledge, 2004. {{ISBN|978-0-7146-5311-2}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=rSpfNJQ4CbAC&pg=PA28 Page 28]. history,M. G. Brock and M. C. Curthoys, [https://books.google.com/books?id=OfjghCa3CnMC The History of the University of Oxford: Volume VII: The Nineteenth Century, Part 2]. Oxford University Press, 2000. {{ISBN|978-0-19-951017-7}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=OfjghCa3CnMC&pg=PR20 Page xx]. literature,Ned Sherrin, [https://books.google.com/books?id=5q4XBa5jsy8C Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations]. Oxford University Press, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-19-923716-6}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=5q4XBa5jsy8C&pg=PA132 Page 132]. as well as the University itself.Paul R. Deslandes, [https://books.google.com/books?id=eUnxxupaKbwC Oxbridge Men: British Masculinity and the Undergraduate Experience, 1850–1920]. Indiana University Press, 2005. {{ISBN|978-0-253-34578-3}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=eUnxxupaKbwC&pg=PA239 p. 239]. Contributors and interviewees had included many Oxford alumni from different walks of life, such as the politician Michael Heseltine,Alicia Clegg, [http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2007-08/v20n3/10.shtml My time of transformation]{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Oxford Today, 20(3):64, 2008. the author and playwright Alan BennettGreg Neale, [http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2008-09/v21n2/10.shtml The dark and the light] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627060440/http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2008-09/v21n2/10.shtml |date=27 June 2009}}. Oxford Today, 21(2):64, 2009. and the comedian Terry Jones of Monty Python fame.Greg Neale, [http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2009-10/v22n2/06.shtml A Python's progress] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620231547/http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2009-10/v22n2/06.shtml |date=20 June 2010}}. Oxford Today, 22(2):48, 2010.

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.{{cite news|url=http://www.cherwell.org/content/10115|title=Oxford Today, gone tomorrow|work=Cherwell|date=21 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306032814/http://www.cherwell.org/news/2010/03/21/oxford-today-gone-tomorrow|archive-date=6 March 2012|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/apr/05/oxford-today|title=Oxford Today, North Korea tomorrow: A brouhaha is brewing at the Oxford alumni magazine, as it comes under pressure to be 'on-message'|work=The Guardian|date=5 April 2010|access-date=16 December 2016|archive-date=23 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161023210130/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/apr/05/oxford-today|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/magazines/2010/04/greg-nearle-oxford-according|title=Changes likely at Oxford Today|work=New Statesman|date=6 April 2010|access-date=5 June 2010|archive-date=10 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100410220904/http://www.newstatesman.com/magazines/2010/04/greg-nearle-oxford-according|url-status=dead}} The magazine was published by FuturePlus, a division of Future Publishing Limited, on behalf of the University of Oxford. After a review of the magazine and its mounting costs, Oxford University decided to close the publication with its last issue published in Trinity 2017.