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Media
French radio's success in London, an interview with exiled Moroccan journalist Aboubakr Jamai and auction frenzy in China
Fighting talk
Al Jazeera became the must-watch news channel for unrest in the Middle East. But it is also a potent soft power weapon for its owner, the Emir of Qatar. Monocle visits its Doha HQ.
True crime fighter
Brankica Stankovic presents Serbia’s hard-hitting investigative TV show ‘Insajder’. In a country where the media shies away from controversy, she represents a fresh voice – but her work comes at a cost.
At the scene
Following the March earthquake and tsunami, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK provided the footage that filled the world’s TV screens. Monocle learns what happened when the disaster drill became real.
Novel concept
While book sales decline, the graphic novel sector booms. London publisher SelfMadeHero reaps the rewards of taking on the market and shaking up tradition, from manga-style Shakespeare to graphic Freud.
Media/Art
A gallery in Istanbul, a radio for rock star and a Q&A with New-York based art collector Henry Buhl.
Doha
As a wave of uprisings and revolutions have swept across North Africa and the Middle East, one news channel has been at the heart of the action. From Egypt to Libya, Al Jazeera’s reporting…
Media
Expanding media in South Korea, cult German magazine launches an English edition, plus smartphone card payment systems.
Anchor Man
Veteran Lebanese journalist Hisham Melhem, head of Al Arabiya’s Washington bureau, speaks to Monocle about covering a winter of Arab rebellion from the US capital.
