Phuket Pilot

Am sharing this to Phuket residents who may remember the early days of the Phuket Gazette. It's primarily an account of my relationship with Phuket dating back to 1976, why the Gazette 'happened', and why I'm still here. Thanks to Bruce Stanley who insisted I tell the story, and who then wrote it.

John Magee, the high-flyer who landed in Phuket John Magee is well known as the American entrepreneur who in 1993 founded the ’Phuket Gazette’ and published it for 25 years. It was the island’s first English-language newspaper and it had an e