Monocle editor in chief on what got ‘rocketing’ Greece on cover

Tyler Brûlé, editor in chief of Monocle magazine, grew up in Canada in a house full of newspapers. When he'd visit his Estonian relatives on his mother's side, the family would sit in the garden as he perused the German magazines on their coffee table inside.

"I was always intrigued by magazines like Der Spiegel or Stern. It opened up a different world, there was this sort of underlay of influence in terms of just being exposed to other types of media," Brûlé tells Kathimerini.

He knew he wanted to become a journalist by the age of 14 and at 21 moved to London, where he worked, among others, at the BBC and Sky News before turning to print media. A nearly fatal mission to Afghanistan in 1994, however, became a turning point in his career. "Am I going to die?" he asked the surgeon treating him for two gunshot wounds - one to his left upper forearm and the other to his...