Featured Podcast: The Stack
Because everybody loves a good magazine.
Magazines are right on trend at the moment, right? Well, not really — print is dying a slow death — but let’s just ignore that and spend an hour a week listening to smart people talk about them.
It’s a pretty straight forward show, but make sure you’re packing a pen: you’ll hear about things that you’ll want to follow up.
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The Concept:
The Stack is all about the good things in print, and includes refreshingly few mentions of iPads and paywalls. It comes from the radio arm of Monocle magazine and is hosted by Monocle’s Chairman and Editor in Chief, Tyler Brule. Each week he asks two people doing great things in the industry to share some of their favorite magazines.
Episodes To Get You Started:
Episode 25: Robyn Holt and Louise Bannister (February 2013)
Let’s start local, with two Australian guests that have been printing pages for some time. This episode was recorded in Sydney with Robyn Holt (former Vogue Living editor-in-chief) and Louise Bannister, who co-founded Frankie. Together, they try to work out why Australia is the third largest audience of Monocle, discuss their subscription habits, and take a break for an interview with a local newsagent.
Episode 27: David Lane, Steven Watson, Jesse Pearson (March 2013)
This is a more classic episode, broadcast out of London. Guests include the David Lane, the co-editor of The Gourmand — a new food and creativity magazine — and Steven Watson, who founded a subscription service that sends out a new and different independent magazine every month (confusingly also called Stack). They break conversation for an interview with Jesse Pearson, a co-founder of Vice who has a new literary magazine called Apology, an attempt to make amends for a culture and aesthetic that he was part of creating.
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