http://www.monocle.com/Primary-Keywords/Media/Media - PrimaryKeywordsenFri, 13 Nov 2009 11:00:33 GMTMonocle 200960EPiServer 4.61info@monocle.cominfo@monocle.comhttp://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Mipcom/After the earthquake of internet erosion and an advertising downturn, how does the TV landscape look?Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=4279http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/The-Daily-Talk/Alfred Sirleaf's 'Daily Talk' newspaper reaches thousands of Liberians every day but only ever produces one copy. How does he do it? By writing the day's biggest stories on a large blackboard beside a busy road in the capital.Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=4138http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Thomas-Demand/Thomas Demand, one of Germany's most iconic contemporary artists, is the focus of a new exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Monocle's culture editor Robert Bound reports.Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=4157http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Single-sell---Los-Angeles/"One of our main credos from day one was not to give that classic record store attitude to customers - the snooty attitude that says 'I know more than you do'," says Marc Weinstein, co-founder of Hollywood's biggest (and friendliest) music store.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:10:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3034http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/So-Farsi-so-good/Until now there has not been a dedicated, unbiased Farsi-speaking TV station broadcasting in Iran. That's about to change with the launch of the BBC World Service's Persian TV.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3032http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Box-fresh---Pakistan/Nine years ago, TV in Pakistan was decades behind India, with just two - state-run - channels and output that was mainly government propaganda. Today its mix of drag divas and campaigning reporters is challenging the old order.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2989http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Agents-of-change---Global/Mass brands and grocery stores have reinvented themselves - now newsagents and kiosks must do the same.Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2895http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Rip-up-the-rulebook---Global/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.Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2894http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Magazine-Articles/Blog-busters---Malaysia/Bloggers in Malaysia have broken the state's control of politics, much to the chagrin of the government and its lapdog press. Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:10:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2819http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Photo-story---Buenos-Aires/You might not care to walk down Rivarola, a narrow alley that runs between rows of colonial houses in downtown Buenos Aires, if it wasn't for the lure of the Asunto Impreso (Librería de la Imagen) bookshop.Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2773http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Town-crier---Vermont/The 'Rutland Herald' is the second-largest daily paper in Vermont and the oldest family-owned newspaper in continuous operation in the US.Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2768http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Light-bulb-moment---London/We enter the world of Katie Paterson, a 27-year-old artist who brings ideas of the universe to life.Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2767http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Magazine-Articles/Claw-back/A tale of factory workers rising up against evil capitalist oppressors is enjoying a renaissance in Japan, 79 years after it was first published.Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:14:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2620http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Tokyo-story---Washington/Aya Igarashi of ‘The Yomiuri Shimbun’ explains why Japan is worried about having a Democrat in the White House.Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2562http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Bangkok-Community-Radio/Bangkok's 'quality of life' radio station provides a lifeline in a city where public services are haphazard at best. Monocle's Bangkok correspondent David Fullbrook tuned in for the day.Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:55:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=2538http://www.monocle.com/sections/business/Magazine-Articles/Green-light---Minneapolis/The upside to rising fuel prices and a depressed property market is more willingness to embrace Kandiyohi Development Partners' mantra: find a better way. Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2488http://www.monocle.com/sections/business/Web-Articles/The-Bookseller-of-Beirut/As anywhere, Lebanon's independent bookstores have slowly been eaten up by big, bland chains. But Esquire, set in the once thriving district of Hamra, stands out as a slightly dusty, but proud, pillar of independence.Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=2462http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Magazine-Articles/Do-not-press-delete---Australia/Australia's National Library is on a crusade to save the country's internet browser history.Thu, 15 May 2008 10:19:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2363http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Magazine-Articles/Lethal-TV-hits---Lebanon/While Lebanon's politicians have been arguing over the election of a new president, trigger-happy citizens have reverted to their old, war-like ways. Thu, 15 May 2008 10:15:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2359http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Mission-critica---Buenos-Aires/Jorge Lanata is firing up the Argentine media landscape with his tabloid 'Crítica', seen as a return to the era of combative journalism.Thu, 15 May 2008 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2320http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-books---Brain-pleasers/Brain pleasers.Thu, 15 May 2008 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2319http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-art---Shows-out-for-summer/Shows out for summer.Thu, 15 May 2008 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2318http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-movies---Film-directions/Film directions.Thu, 15 May 2008 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2317http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Global-gathering---Boston/Charles Sennott sits down with Monocle two weeks into his new job as co-founder, vice-president and executive editor of Global News Enterprises.Thu, 15 May 2008 10:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2314http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Spiegel-eye---New-York/Continuing our series looking at foreign coverage of the US presidential elections is Klaus Brinkbäumer, one of five US-based correspondents for the German weekly 'Der Spiegel'.Thu, 15 May 2008 10:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2313http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/India-ads-up---Mumbai/Monocle visits Mumbai's advertising agencies to witness an atmosphere as heady as New York or London in their 1970s golden days.Thu, 15 May 2008 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2299http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Magazine-Articles/Current-affairs---Finland/Something has happened in Finland, a country where the press used to keep a respectful distance to power and treat news about a president's illness or a minister's extra-marital affair as a private matter.Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:12:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2249http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-books---Mellow-pages/Mellow pagesThu, 17 Apr 2008 10:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2234http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Magazine-Articles/Question-time---Japan/In Japan, there have long been question marks over the uncomfortably close ties between journalists and the establishment, but things could be about to change.Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2242http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-movies---Film-and-DVD-nuts-in-May/Film (and DVD) nuts in MayThu, 17 Apr 2008 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2198http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Press-for-change---Koln/Publishing dynasty MDS is growing faster than at any time in its 205-year history. Konstantin Neven DuMont is leading its charge into the digital arena.Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2196http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Magazine-Articles/Toon-army---China/No longer can Chinese adolescents watch global animated superstars such as SpongeBob Squarepants or Pokémon after school. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2240http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Online-revolution---France/Answering only to itself, rue89.com satisfies a strident radical attitude to the Elysée Palace, the news agenda and alleged suppression of the French press.Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2194http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Bridging-the-gulf---Washington/Qatar's Al-Jazeera Arabic news network has enjoyed as rocky a relationship with the US as the region from which it hails.Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2192http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/The-Digital-News-Affairs-Conference/Monocle's Culture Editor Robert Bound talked to some of the leading lights at this year's Digital News Affairs Conference in Brussels.Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=2069http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-movies---Conflicting-passions/Spring screens.Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2080http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Presenting-the-nation---Global/An explosion of state-funded English-language news channels are attempting to transmit not just the news but their country’s brand. From Moscow to Mumbai we report on the new broadcast empires and ask if this is just propaganda disguised as programming.Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2074http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Culture-cafe/Situated off this Provençal village's main square, Le Thé dans l'Encrier serves as the sole bookshop to 1,100 inhabitants and myriad tourists.Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2078http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-music---March-to-a-different-beat/Dig!!! April's albums.Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2079http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-books---Our-shelf-life/Our shelf life.Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2082http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Lucky-star---Virginia/America has the vestiges of a patchwork of local media barons. The ones that thrive have managed to mix tradition with cutting-edge technology. The 80-year-old owner of the 'Free Lance-Star' is still a pioneer and the owner of an empire that rivals covet.Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2083http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Nico-time---Luxembourg/Nico is the offspring of Luxembourg-based publishing maverick Mike Koedinger's fertile imagination.Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2077http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Woman-of-the-world---Washington/The next correspondent in our series looking at foreign coverage of the US presidential elections is Corine Lesnes of 'Le Monde'. Once frosty, France's relations with the US have improved with the arrival of President Sarkozy.Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2075http://www.monocle.com/sections/edits/Magazine-Articles/Observation---Issue-11/Journalists ask the craziest questions.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1978http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Magazine-Articles/Bards-in-their-eyes---UAE/Dr Ghassan Hassan is the toughest nut to crack on the judging panel of Abu Dhabi TV's adaptation of Pop Idol, Million's Poet, which captures the hearts of 17 million Emirateans during its weekly two-hour live transmission.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:17:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2015http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-books---Miracles-madams-maps/Miracles, madams, maps.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:16:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2013http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-movies---Conflicting-passions/Conflicting passions.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:14:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1972http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-music---March-to-a-different-beat2/March to a different beat.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:12:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1971http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Freedom-fighter--Johannesburg/As editor of 'The Zimbabwe Independent', Trevor Ncube became all too familiar with the consequences of criticising the government. Now based in South Africa.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:09:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1950http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Party-animal---Virginia/The second correspondent in our series looking at foreign coverage of the US presidential election is Li Xuejiang, Washington bureau chief for China's 'People's Daily'.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1948http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Duck-for-coverage---Paris/Every Wednesday in Paris, the Metro is awash with a flimsy broadsheet only eight pages long, but crammed with insider information and a special brand of satirical and investigative journalism.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1946http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Medical-manga---Tokyo/Compared to their TV kin, the new wave of hospital manga are nigh-on medical journals in cartoon form.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1945http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Film-stars---Japan/In Japan, 94m digital cameras were produced last year, compared to 800,000 film cameras. However, an army of die-hard fans is keeping the film format alive.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1943http://www.monocle.com/sections/edits/Magazine-Articles/Big-cheese---Arianna-Huffington-commentator/Arianna Huffington, best known for running influential news site the Huffington Post, chooses Toscana for her last meal.Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:40:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1839http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Dear-darling---Berlin/Incoming from Berlin, hot off the presses from its Monbijouplatz offices, is 'Liebling', a tall, handsome stranger of a culture-only paper.Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:20:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1855http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art-of-news--Tel-Aviv/Amos Schocken, publisher of Israel's most influential newspaper, Haaretz, has remained true to his grandfather's liberal ethos, unafraid to report fairly on Palestinian issues. Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:12:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1849http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Pawn-in-the-usa---Washington/Monocle interviews Roselena Ramírez, who heads the Washington DC bureau of TeleSUR, a Venezuelan-controlled television station.Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:10:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1848http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/The-selectors--Berlin/Bodo von Hodenberg wants to sell the best books from around the world, whether it's a book from the smallest art publisher in southern Japan or the coolest cookbook from Germany.Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1846http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-music/It's the year for fiery, folky femininity.Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1845http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Italian-inquisition---Rome/In a media world dominated by reality TV and celebrity chat shows posing as news, Milena Gabanelli's 'Report' stands out.Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1843http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Cultural-calendar---Music/Our pick of the best new music coming your way in the next 12 months.Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1690http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art-corps---Global/We asked five creative contenders to peer into their cultural crystal balls and tell us what they see for 2008 and beyond.Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1694http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Cultural-calendar---Film/A guide to the essential movies of 2008.Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1691http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Arte--Craft---Strasbourg/Monocle paid a visit to Arte TV, a haven for high-end broadcasting, to look at the challenges posed by the switch to high-definition television.Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1686http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Cultural-calendar---Books/We predict the major publishing trends of the coming year.Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1692http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Cultural-calendar---Visual-Arts/Monocle forecasts the key art appointments of 2008.Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1688http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Franz-Manola---Austria/Austria and Switzerland will host the 2008 European Football Championship in June, and Austria's state broadcaster ORF is looking forward with trepidation to covering the event in HD. Monocle spoke to Franz Manola, head of ORF ON.Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1687http://www.monocle.com/sections/design/Magazine-Articles/Nordic-news---A-Swedish-chain-is-reborn/The Nordic convenience chain Pressbyrån is getting a makeover in a bid to add some personality.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:20:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1566http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Censor-sensibility---Beijng/Hung Huang wants to forge a uniquely modern Chinese culture, in a country where the censors still hold sway.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1642http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Strip-joint---Rome/After embarking on a year's "passionate discovery of comic-strip culture", Bougault opened l'Aventure in Rome.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1641http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Paper-tigers---The-world/Monocle asks the experts what the future holds for newspapers and looks at three innovative and thriving titles.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1639http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/The-next-best-thing---Rotterdam/In the Netherlands' crowded and sophisticated newspaper market, a new launch might seem foolhardy, but this Dutch daily has found an untapped market with its wit, analysis and opinion.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1638http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Magazine-Articles/My-morning-media-menu---Noah-Feldman-Cambridge-MA/Noah Feldman, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Cambridge, MA, gives us his morning media menu.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1603http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Magazine-Articles/My-morning-media-menu---Verity-Firth-Sydney-Australia/Verity Firth, State parliamentarian; Minister for Women and for Science and Medical Research, gives us her morning media menu.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1608http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Printed-matters---Frankfurt/The expectations of the modern reader prompted a complete redesign of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Monocle gained exclusive access to the relaunch.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1637http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Magazine-Articles/My-morning-media-menu---Kashiwa-Sato-Japan/Award-winning art director Kashiwa Sato gives us his morning media menu.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1598http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Magazine-Articles/My-morning-media-menu---Esther-Passaris-Kenya/Esther Passaris, the founder of Adopt-a-Light and one of East Africa’s most prominent businesswomen, gives us her morning media menu.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:50:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1592http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Magazine-Articles/My-morning-media-menu---Beppe-Grillo-Italy/The Italian comedian and blogger tells us his morning media menu.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1586http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Magazine-Articles/The-inside-scoop---the-newsstand/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.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1578http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Magazine-Articles/Korea-opportunity---USA/Korean is establishing itself as one of the key secondary languages in the US, a fact reflected in the booming US-based Korean-language media.Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1452http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/African-Stations---Nairobi/Salim Amin is determined to launch A24, the first pan-African news channel.Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:25:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1488http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Battle-of-Flanders---Belgium/Christian Van Thillo's company, De Persgroep, is kept honest by his country, a fussy, fragmented place that expects its own home-grown sophisticated, bilingual, regionally-focussed media.Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:08:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1485http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Fresh-and-Wild---Los-Angeles/For 20 years, book designer Lorraine Wild has helped define the visual culture of Los Angeles.Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1484http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-Books---The-best-autumn-leafing/Monocle presents the best autumn leafing.Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1483http://www.monocle.com/sections/business/Magazine-Articles/Studio-twenty-four---Dohar/Al Jazeera English is the first English-language 24-hour news and current affairs channel from the Middle East.Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:59:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1472http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Tee-break---A-publication-for-T-shirt-devotees/"You can go anywhere in the world and people are wearing T-shirts," says Eddie Zammit, founder of the biannual t-shirt magazine "T-World", which launched last year.Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1244http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Citizen-Clean---Zurich/Michael Ringier became the fifth generation of his Swiss family to head their eponymous empire in 1991. Since then, Ringier AG has expanded into eastern Europe and the Far East.Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1241http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/E-sports-in-Korea/One of the by-products of South Korea's broadband boom has been the creation of an online gaming culture unlike anything seen anywhere else.Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:15:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=1007http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Waxing-lyrical---Rio-de-Janeiro/The Brazilian publisher of Piaui magazine on how he scored a hit with stories of football-playing priests, limbo and cigarettes.Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=933http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Magazine-Articles/Courtly-love---Japan/A curious Japanese tribe called the "trial observation maniacs" reports on the slowly grinding wheels of Japanese justice.Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=883http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Magazine-Articles/Vive-les-bloggeurs---France/To blog, or not to blog?Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=874http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Korea-moves---Seoul/Thanks to its commitment to a lightning-fast wireless future, South Korea has become a laboratory for mixing pop culture with big business.Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:55:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=789http://www.monocle.com/sections/affairs/Magazine-Articles/Storm-in-a-teacup---China/Gu Degang has been sued for endorsing a weight-loss tea that seems to have no effect.Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:45:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=736http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Paper-curator---Lisbon-Portugal/Until Tema opened 13 years ago, buying an international publication in Portugal - with the exception of Time, Newsweek and Paris Match - was no easy task.Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:21:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=680http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/News-brothers---Istanbul-Turkey/The Tünel, an underground railway with just two stops, has ferried Istanbulites from Galata to Péra since 1875, and a newsstand has stood at its top station for 60 years.Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:30:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=566http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Dream-team---Scandinavia/If money were no object, what would a new, world-beating Scandinavian media organisation look like? Who would work for it? What kind of equipment would they use?Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:40:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=562http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Golden-girls---USA/Who is to blame for a TV news diet of soft stories, banal banter and Identikit blondes - a public unwilling to engage with global affairs, or the networks trying to brand news as entertainment?Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:18:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=559http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Blue-paper-white-lies---Chinese-whispers-delight-commuters/Beijing's "blue tabloids" are a publishing phenomenon and an especially surprising one, given the Communist government's short press leash.Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=558http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Novel-concept---Japan/Downloadable novels, written to be read on mobile phones, are the most remarkable success story in Japanese publishing.Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:52:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=556http://www.monocle.com/sections/edits/Magazine-Articles/Observation---Issue-01/Monocle's editor-in-chief explains the inspiration behind Monocle, and how the vision became reality.Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:13:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=488http://www.monocle.com/sections/edits/Magazine-Articles/TV-Dinner---Ann-Curry-news-anchor/Ann Curry, news anchor on NBC's Today, chose the UN Delegates Dining Room as the setting for her last meal and testament.Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:18:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=486http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Kabul-and-wireless---Afghanistan/The host of Afghanistan's most popular breakfast show. Massood Sanjer.Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:46:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=393http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Sold-out---The-stars-of-Japanese-advertising/Which three Japanese stars would you hire for future commercials?Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:37:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=382http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Nordic-News-Network/Monocle plays fantasy broadcasting, creating 'Nordic News Network'. Watch our quick fly-through of the NNN bureau.Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:08:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=563http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Kuntzel--Deygas-Com-Pet/Exclusive preview of a new animated character from K+D. Introducing Com-Pet.Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:45:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=983http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Kuntzel--Deygas-Cap-and-Pep/Cap 'n' Pep are two animated creations by Kuntzel+Deygas, which you may have seen appearing at the Parisian colette store, on TV shows for Edouard Baer or for Lacoste.Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:45:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=980http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Kuntzel--Deygas-Videos/A couple of video installations by K+D, from Capitale de la Création and Designers' Days, Paris.Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:45:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=981http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Arman-FM-Afghanistan/Afghanistan's no.1 DJ, Massood Sanjer, talks us through his show.Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:18:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=986Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:22:52 GMT