The Stack

Year in review, the best titles and trends in the magazine world in 2016.

We meet Libreria’s Paddy Butler and cast an eye toward Thailand’s publishing industry and its reaction to the death of King Bhumibol.

Cultural commentator Peter York reviews his favourite magazine titles and we head to Guadalajara for the world’s second-largest book fair.

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 best Christmas gifts for lovers of print.

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.

We talk Canada with Liz Schaffer from ‘Lodestars Anthology’ magazine and look back at both ‘The Face’ magazine and The Stack Awards.

‘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.

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’.

We bring you a special episode of ‘The Stack’ from this year’s edition of the Modern Magazine Conference, featuring Tony Rushton from ‘Private Eye’ and the editors of ‘The Happy Reader’, ‘MacGuffin’ and ‘Empire’.

On this special edition of ‘The Stack’ recorded at the Frankfurt Book Fair we speak to Christoph Amend, editor in chief of ‘Zeit Magazin’, and Urs Spindler from independent magazine festival Indiecon.