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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'.

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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.

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Monocle music - March to a different beat

March to a different beat.

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Monocle movies - Conflicting passions

Conflicting passions.

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Monocle books - Miracles, madams, maps

Miracles, madams, maps.

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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...

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Observation - Issue 11

Journalists ask the craziest questions.

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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...

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Nico time - Luxembourg

Nico is the offspring of Luxembourg-based publishing maverick Mike Koedinger's fertile imagination.

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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...

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Monocle books - Our shelf life

Our shelf life.

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Monocle music - March to a different beat

Dig!!! April's albums.

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Culture café - Lourmarin

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.

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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...

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Monocle movies - Conflicting passions

Spring screens.

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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.

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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.

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Online révolution - 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.

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Toon army - China

No longer can Chinese adolescents watch global animated superstars such as SpongeBob Squarepants or Pokémon after school.

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Press for change - Köln

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.

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Monocle movies

Film (and DVD) nuts in May

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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.

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Monocle books

Mellow pages

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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...

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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.

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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'.

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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.

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Monocle movies - Film directions

Film directions.

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Monocle art - Shows out for summer

Shows out for summer.

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Monocle books - Brain pleasers

Brain pleasers.

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Mission crítica - 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.

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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.

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Do not press delete - Australia

Australia's National Library is on a crusade to save the country's internet browser history.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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Tokyo story - Washington

Aya Igarashi of ‘The Yomiuri Shimbun’ explains why Japan is worried about having a Democrat in the White House.

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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.

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Light bulb moment - London

We enter the world of Katie Paterson, a 27-year-old artist who brings ideas of the universe to life.

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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.

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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)...

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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.

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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...

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Agents of change - Global

Mass brands and grocery stores have reinvented themselves - now newsagents and kiosks must do the same.

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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...

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Mipcom

After the earthquake of internet erosion and an advertising downturn, how does the TV landscape look?

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