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How convenient
Chez Jean is a café, sassy superette and international newsstand rolled into one.
Happy new world
As Monocle turns two, we reflect on our origins and unveil subtle brand tweaks. We continue to champion small businesses, local firms and far-flung regions in an ever-more homogeneous world.
Friends eclectic
LA’s KCRW sounds like the future of radio. Small, perfectly formed and with an influence that travels far beyond its American HQ, it breaks bands and sets the soundtrack for Hollywood’s films.
Standard raiser
Israeli-born artist Oscar Bronner founded Der Standard to fill a gap for non-partisan journalism in Austria. It is now the country's second best-selling quality paper, with over 75,000 copies a day.
On the shelf
we peruse the shelves of the thriving, eclectic magazine shop Papercut in Stockholm.
Paper weight
We peruse the ‘Yomiuri Shimbun’, Japan’s daily paper with the world's biggest circulation. As part of our series on success, we look at its business, from newspapers to baseball teams and department stores.
Media
Monocle speaks with the head of Slate's new French edition. Also in this issue: a new Saudi Arabian satellite channel for the underprivileged and the reopening of a beloved Belgian film museum.
Freedom writer
We profile Erick Thohir, founder of Jakarta's Mahaka Media group. After revitalising the failing paper ‘Republika’, he’s now on a mission to modernise media in a freer Indonesia.
Culture
Our pick of the latest cultural highlights. In film, a Palme d’Or winner. In books, a macabre thriller. In art, sculptures from mouse hair. And in music, Emmy the Great’s debut.
So farsi, so good
The BBC World Service's Persian TV launches as the first dedicated, unbiased Farsi-speaking station for Iran, aiming to put a new spin on the country and break down cultural barriers.
