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''O Heraldo'' is a century-old broadsheet English-language daily

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published from

Panjim Panaji (; also known as Panjim) is the capital of the Indian state of Goa and the headquarters of North Goa district. Previously, it was the territorial capital of the former Portuguese India. It lies on the banks of the Mandovi river estuary ...

, the state-capital of the

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n state of Goa.

History

''O Heraldo'' was established as the first daily

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newspaper on 21 May 1900 by

Aleixo Clemente Messias Gomes Aleixo Clemente Messias Gomes (Panjim, Goa, 11 January 1873 - Panjim, 27 June 1957), better known as Prof. Messias Gomes, was a secondary school teacher, writer and Portuguese-Goan journalist, author of several works on historical themes and foun ...

in Goa. After a ten-year spell in Lisbon, Messias Gomes undertook major expansions and modernisations of the paper's operations in 1919. It was later transformed into an

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daily in 1983, by which time it was 'the longest-running Portuguese-language newspaper outside of Portugal and Brazil'.Paul Melo e Castro (trans.), ''Lengthening Shadows'', 2 vols (Saligão: Goa, 1556, 2016), I p. 16. The newspaper presently has 2 supplements - its daily four-pager Herald Café that is out on all days of the week except Monday and its weekly four-pager Herald Review, that accompanies the paper on Sunday.

References

External links

''O Heraldo'' website
English-language newspapers published in India Indian news websites Mass media in Goa Culture of Panaji 1900 establishments in Portuguese India {{India-newspaper-stub