Rhyd (pronounced reed) is an editorial publication dispatched from São Paulo. The name comes from the old Welsh word for a ford — a crossing point on a river, the place where you get across.
We publish first-person dispatches from Brasil — in audio, film, and writing — alongside analytical essays on the systems shaping modern life, and travel writing from places further out. Three strands, one editorial line: the work of seeing clearly where you are.
The strands
- Letters from Brasil. First-person dispatches from inside the country, in audio, film, and writing. The country lived in, not the country explained.
- Transmission. Analytical essays on systems, infrastructure, and the economics of what's being built. Long-form, single-author, dense by design.
- Places. Travel writing and dispatches from the road. Notes from being somewhere new.
The team
Rhyd Media is written and produced by a small team. Read more about the people behind the dispatches:
- Paul Archer — Letters from Brasil across writing, audio, and video.
- James Biviano — essays and dispatches on systems, money, and the infrastructure underneath culture.
The canonical home
We believe in owning our house. Everything published here is the canonical original. Where the work appears elsewhere — Substack, social platforms, syndication partners — those copies point back to Rhyd Media as the source. The conversation happens on the satellites; the work lives here.
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