The Globalist, episode 223
We profile Japan’s aging population, learn about Kenya’s coastal separatist movement, and get Australian business news with James Chessell.
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The Monocle Daily, episode 285
We review the week’s defence news with Trefor Moss, we discuss Israel’s plans to build new settlements, and ask how do you age a lobster?
Culture / Television
The Digital News Affairs Conference
The Digital News Affairs Conference in Brussels featured more than 50 speakers from the media world's leading editorial, marketing and business teams. The subject of this year's event was 'How to survive the digital news…
Culture, episode 79
Record Store Day Special: We visit some of the independent businesses celebrating the physical store in an age of digital and hear how hand-printed gig posters are having a renaissance. Plus, all the industry news from…
End Point / Monocle
Observation Issue 01
The inspiration for this venture came about either in the living room of my Aunt Anita’s house in Toronto 32 years ago or around a table at Die Brücke in Hamburg circa 1991. Regardless of dates and location, the spark was…
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Wednesday 11 July
The big divide
Picture a newsroom in America and a newsreader, suitably vanilla-looking and a tad like an overgrown Ken doll, who leans over a desk and says to a female colleague, “Social scientists have concluded that the country is more…
Affairs / Television
Non-stop news
In October TV4-Gruppen will launch the only 24-hour news channel in Sweden, headed by Göran Ellung, news and current affairs director of programmes at the main network. It’s hoped it’ll draw in an audience of news-hungry…
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.
Culture / Television
Golden girls
To counter dipping audience figures and falling advertising revenues, TV news increasingly offers a diet of soft stories, banal banter and Identikit blondes. Who is to blame, a public unwilling to engage with global affairs…
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Friday 19 November
Nato summit – making the most of hosting
Much like in the rest of Europe, the 22nd Nato summit has been dominating the news agenda in Portugal – but not just because of the alliance’s new Strategic Concept, nor the likely announcements on missile defence and…
Culture / Newspapers
The watch word
Traditional media brands have been infected by the web’s ‘publish now, worry about the facts later’ ethic and as their standards slip, readers vanish. But now there’s a crop of journalists who can mix old-school standards…
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Friday 2 March
Sometimes a little help goes a long way
I was lucky enough to be squeezed in on the last day of an exhibition recently. You needed a ticket – the travesty of which must unfortunately be left for another Monocolumn.
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 21 January
The youth of today
To coincide with Japan's Coming of Age Day, we ask how much Japanese youth have to celebrate.
Design / Architecture
Monocolumn
Tuesday 25 October
It’s curtains for glass buildings
Residents and visitors to any city in China should take care when passing glass buildings.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Thursday 17 February
The reaction to Fijian president’s death
Josefa Iloilo, the former Fijian president whose scrapping of his island nation’s constitution cemented the grip of a 2006 military coup that isolated his country, has died aged 91.
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Tuesday 16 March
Spotting the lesser-bearded soldier
When a French photojournalist captured striking images of western soldiers emerging from a Kabul firefight earlier this year, New Zealand would have been one of the last places he might have expected his pictures to make…
Affairs / Aviation
Monocolumn
Wednesday 11 November
ANA: the airline overhauling its look – and a nation
It’s shaping up to be a funny last quarter in the world of civil aviation – particularly in Japan.
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Friday 18 December
Double lives, for Tiger and the media
The past few weeks have been an interesting time in the Nordic region. The Copenhagen climate conference has gathered world leaders to discuss the future of the planet.
Affairs / Technology
Monocolumn
Wednesday 9 January
Rethinking space
As man has set his sights higher and looked deeper into the heavens in search of new challenges and discoveries, it has often been thought that the only limit on his accomplishments would be the pace of technological adv…