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Monocolumn
Monday 28 January
The word on the street
Brazil is in the middle of a magazine and newspaper boom. Here are a few catching the eye on São Paulo newsstands.
Monday 28 January
Brazil is in the middle of a magazine and newspaper boom. Here are a few catching the eye on São Paulo newsstands.
Print media might be faced with some serious challenges but it’s time to stop calling its relevance into question – that goes for newspapers too. In many markets the humble daily has never looked so good, in others there’s…
The media industries are evolving and morphing extremely quickly and the old ways of doing things are becoming redundant. To help you keep up, Monocle identifies the pioneers, technologies and trends of the future.
A magazine printing concept, Jim Marshall speakers and other media and art news.
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…
For our series on media barons we feature Erick Thohir, founder of the Mahaka Media group in Jakarta. After revitalising the failing paper ‘Republika’ he’s now on a mission to modernise print, radio and TV in a freer Ind…
Journalists ask the craziest questions At a recent media-centric conference in Munich a series of reporters from various print, online and TV outlets asked me to reflect on this magazine’s first year and why we decided to…
Our editor in chief Tyler Brûlé takes stock of a busy year that has culminated in us cranking up the dial on Monocle 24, and charts the months ahead. But in between there’s glühwein and stollen to be savoured
The print media market is in a right old mess and half the problem is the way magazines and newspapers are sold. Mass brands and grocery stores have reinvented themselves – now newsagents and kiosks must do the same.
Hung Huang is the head of CIMG, perhaps China’s most sophisticated media brand. In just seven years she has spearheaded new TV, print and web media. Now she wants to forge a uniquely modern Chinese culture, in a country…
Tuesday 5 March
Warren Buffett's love of print newspapers is a refreshing rebuttal to iPad-or-nothing publishers.
Sunday 10 October
The plaques bolted to each of its five bulky printing units say it all: “Property of the United States Government Department of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor”.
Sunday 9 September
We recently welcomed the young British author Niven Govinden into our studios at Midori House.
Saturday 24 October
Paper is dead, ink is drying up, the newsstand is a wasteland and the future will be backlit, animated and user-generated. That may be if you’re a tech entrepreneur riding around on your Segway in Marin Country and you’ve…
Friday 18 December
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.
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