The Faster Lane
from Tyler Brûlé
Amid sprawling news deserts, the future of fine print is in our hands
What a difference six days and 6,000 kilometres makes, especially in the business of selling newspapers. On Saturday morning, I woke up at my mom’s place in the Old Mill district of Toronto and…
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I went looking for the weekend papers but found a gap in the market instead
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Want to build a European powerhouse? Think more like Zara than Zuckerberg
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Want to unsubscribe from common sense? There’s an email for that
I was about to wish you a “good morning” but stopped for sensitivity reasons. I then decided “happy Sunday” might be better but, for sensitivity reasons, I held back. “Sunny greetings” seemed like a…
Why we should keep looking up
It’s very late on Friday evening, almost midnight, and I’m sitting in the Al Mourjan Business Lounge at Doha’s Hamad International Airport and reflecting on what has been a whirlwind week of flights, meetings, moderating, reunions…
Learn a look, lighten the load
Happy Easter, bunnies, from a breezy terrace above a modernist stretch of Lisbon. A couple of days ago I decided that this column will occasionally be devoted to life in the Portuguese capital as…
It’s not what you know – it’s who has the keys
MarioIt’s springtime 1996 and I have the wonderful idea to launch a magazine. My friend Nancy recommends a gentleman named Paulo in Milan to help sell the advertising and off I go with my…
The year is heating up. Here’s my plan to keep a cool head
It’s diary Saturday in the Brûlé household. The sun is out, there is the gentlest breeze and diaries, pencils and erasers are at the ready. First up, the week ahead: Salone del Mobile in…
Farewell Gwen Robinson: a journalistic force, a friend and a true original
On the odd day over the past few weeks, I’ve perched in the lounge of our new Paris outpost talking to French journalists about the Monocle story and, in part, my own. It’s been…
