Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Saturday 16 October
The book that had to be written
In the heady days following Robert Mugabe’s 2008 election defeat, Vanity Fair sent Peter Godwin to cover the despot’s anticipated demise.
- 180 results for journalism
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Wednesday 29 February
Field reporters should be in the field
I arrived in Hong Kong in the summer of 2010 to set up Monocle’s new bureau. The first impression I had was the heat and 98 per cent humidity, it felt as though I was swimming through the streets.
Culture / Media
New media circus
It seems that every news presenter has a blog or Twitter feed – but post personal opinions at your peril. Monocle investigates the pleasures and sorrows of social media in the news.
Affairs / Television
Monocolumn
Monday 24 September
Seeking serious journalism to unwind with
Picture a typical weekday evening for many in America. It’s 19.00, you’ve managed to get home from work at a decent hour and it’s time to sit down with a glass of wine and catch up on the day’s news.
Culture / Media
Pack leaders
A photographer, a war artist, Sky News’ special correspondent and a writer for ‘The New Yorker’ reveal what kit they take with them to the world’s conflict zones and how they work. Among the essential bulletproof jackets…
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Monday 17 September
Good journalism is about finding balance
Should we tell the truth, the New York Times asked us this weekend. The column from the paper’s new public editor – its ombudsman – made the queasy admission that sometimes the world’s most famous newspaper doesn’t make…
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Sunday 10 January
Newspaper in ‘solid journalism’ shocker
Barack Obama had just taken office, but the right-wing media gathered at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference a year ago felt pretty good about the state of their industry.
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Saturday 12 February
Al Jazeera fills the gap left by the BBC
Nothing encapsulates the fast-moving global media landscape more than the changing of the guard currently taking place in the Balkans.
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Tuesday 21 August
Libya – A victory for old-school journalism
Wars have often turned jobbing journalists into household names and given them a heroic lustre in the process.
Culture / Media
Monocolumn
Wednesday 5 December
Journalism: put the tarring brush away
“Have you ever been shot?” The question was asked in all innocence. He meant no harm. He was genuinely interested in the answer. And yet, underneath, there was a sense of scepticism. Perhaps an understandable sense of…
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Friday 9 December
The Leveson Inquiry
For any aficionado of the more bizarre digressions of politics and the media, it seems churlish to complain about the board of fare offered by the Leveson Inquiry.
Business / Media
Monocolumn
Monday 31 May
Crowdsourcing the news
As traditional news media outlets fret over their business models, there’s no shortage of upstarts hot-housing the future of journalism online.
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Sunday 23 September
Robots versus journalists
Content provider is one of the uglier terms to have slipped into everyday vocabulary.
Edits / Monocle
Monocolumn
Thursday 30 August
Tearing down walls to build something new
One of the many satisfying things about working at a magazine is the physicality of the thing.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Sunday 27 May
Mexico has far more to it than just violence
There’s a letter I tend to get from Monocle’s listeners and readers whenever we run a story that mentions kidnaps, murders or drugs in Mexico.
Affairs / Health
Monocolumn
Thursday 26 January
Somalia’s conflicts show no sign of resolution
Five years ago, stood in the concrete shell of a building in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, I made a deal.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Wednesday 19 September
On provocation
“There are only two or three human stories,” said Carl Linstrum in Willa Cather’s novel O Pioneers!, “and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country that…
Culture / Media
Loud and proud
As vocal political battles rage on over the country’s democratisation, Monocle speaks to Turkey’s media stars about the role newspapers have in shaping the nation.
Culture / Media
Spiegel eye
Continuing our series looking at foreign coverage of the US presidential elections is Klaus Brinkbäumer, one of five US-based correspondents for the German weekly Der Spiegel. He has questioned McCain, Clinton, Obama and…
Culture / Television
Mixed signals
New technology and tighter budgets mean TV news is downsizing from expensive satellite broadcasts to low-quality broadband clips. They say it helps make stories feel more immediate, but isn’t it really just an excuse to cut…