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'.
View ArticleFreedom 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.
View ArticleBards 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...
View ArticleWoman 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...
View ArticleNico time - Luxembourg
Nico is the offspring of Luxembourg-based publishing maverick Mike Koedinger's fertile imagination.
View ArticleLucky 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...
View ArticleCulture 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.
View ArticlePresenting 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...
View ArticleThe 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.
View ArticleBridging 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.
View ArticleOnline 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.
View ArticleToon army - China
No longer can Chinese adolescents watch global animated superstars such as SpongeBob Squarepants or Pokémon after school.
View ArticlePress 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.
View ArticleQuestion 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.
View ArticleCurrent 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...
View ArticleIndia 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.
View ArticleSpiegel 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'.
View ArticleGlobal 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.
View ArticleMission 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.
View ArticleLethal 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.
View ArticleDo not press delete - Australia
Australia's National Library is on a crusade to save the country's internet browser history.
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleGreen 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.
View ArticleBangkok 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.
View ArticleTokyo story - Washington
Aya Igarashi of ‘The Yomiuri Shimbun’ explains why Japan is worried about having a Democrat in the White House.
View ArticleClaw 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.
View ArticleLight bulb moment - London
We enter the world of Katie Paterson, a 27-year-old artist who brings ideas of the universe to life.
View ArticleTown 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.
View ArticlePhoto 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)...
View ArticleBlog busters - Malaysia
Bloggers in Malaysia have broken the state's control of politics, much to the chagrin of the government and its lapdog press.
View ArticleRip 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...
View ArticleAgents of change - Global
Mass brands and grocery stores have reinvented themselves - now newsagents and kiosks must do the same.
View ArticleBox 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...
View ArticleSo 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.
View ArticleSingle 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...
View ArticleThomas 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.
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleMipcom
After the earthquake of internet erosion and an advertising downturn, how does the TV landscape look?
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