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Goa Journal is a magazine website run by journalist Pamela D’Mello.

Bio:Pamela D’Mello is a widely published journalist, writer and independent researcher with degrees in Economics and Law from Bombay University. She has worked in the newspaper, magazine, and online media space for over three and a half decades, reporting on and analysing the political economy of contemporary Goa — from iron ore mining, ecology, tourism, civil movements to land use, culture and politics. Her work as a journalist spans early years at the Lawyers’ Collective, Bombay; Herald, Goa; Special Correspondent (Goa) for The Asian Age; Associate Editor, Herald; stringer for The Associated Press and The Telegraph, Calcutta. Her by-lined articles have appeared in Frontline, Economic and Political Weekly, India Today, Scroll.in, The Wire, Huffington Post, Mongabay, The Hindu, Deccan Herald, Down To Earth, BBC, The Quint, Caravan, Vantage, The Week, India Legal, The Goan, as well as on her website, goajournal.in.

She has published book chapters on ‘Goa in Creative Writing – An Annotated Bibliography’ (co-author) (Mirror to Goa, 2010, Broadway & Goa 1556) and ‘Journalism in the Time of Avarice’ (And Read All Over, 2025, Goa 1556). Her short stories have appeared in anthologies of the Goa Writers Group — Inside Out (2011, Goa 1556), Ways of Belonging (2024, Goa 1556), and Appetite: New Writing from Goa (2026, Penguin). With an interest in academic and historical research, she has presented seminar papers at Goa University and Xavier Centre of Historical Research on land relations, Legislative Defections and the Tenth Schedule, the Goa Civil Code, and the role of private schools in nineteenth and twentieth century Goa.

Contact email for support/advertising: goajournalbooks@gmail.com