The Stack
For print and publishing lovers. Covering everything from indie magazines to major publications and the evolving world of print media.
Latest Episodes
News magazines and fashion titles
Can news magazines survive 2017? And is starting a media venture in today’s climate a crazy idea? We ask Monocle’s editor in chief Tyler Brûlé. Plus: The New York Times vanishes in China and the key menswear titles of the season.
Best of The Stack
We pick the best of The Stack of 2016 – new titles, the most important fairs and why the magazine world remain buoyant
2016 picks
Year in review, the best titles and trends in the magazine world in 2016.
Booked up
We meet Libreria’s Paddy Butler and cast an eye toward Thailand’s publishing industry and its reaction to the death of King Bhumibol.
Real page-turner
Cultural commentator Peter York reviews his favourite magazine titles and we head to Guadalajara for the world’s second-largest book fair.
Live at the Monocle Christmas Market
A special one-hour edition broadcasting live from the Monocle Christmas Market with Tyler Brûlé and Emma Nelson. Author and former newspaper editor Jonathan Fenby discusses the state of the newspaper industry in 2016 and Stack Magazines’ Steve Watson looks back at the year’s standout titles. Plus: our guide to the…
A racquet of one’s own
We speak to the editor and publisher of ‘Racquet Magazine’, a brand-new publication about tennis. Plus: a review of the latest titles to hit newsstands with Fernando Augusto Pacheco.
Canada calling
We talk Canada with Liz Schaffer from ‘Lodestars Anthology’ magazine and look back at both ‘The Face’ magazine and The Stack Awards.
Newspapers in the age of Trump
‘American Psycho’ is how the French newspaper ‘Libération’ greeted its readers the morning after Donald Trump’s shock election win in the US. But what role did the print press play in his rise? Tyler Brûlé, Andrew Tuck and Tom Edwards unpick this extraordinary week in world media.
An eye for redesign
On this week’s episode of ‘The Stack’ we look into redesigning a magazine or newspaper with leading graphic designer Mark Porter and Gail Bichler from ‘The New York Times Magazine’.
