About The Monsoon Wire

The Monsoon Wire is a network of independent publications covering the business of the soft-commodity trades: tea, and the trades alongside it. Each member is a single-subject industry title, researched and edited on its own. The network does not run a shared newsroom, it does not publish subject articles, and it does not speak for the members. It exists to introduce them and point a reader to the right one.

The one rule

Every member keeps the same editorial rule. Report the market by the figures, attribute every number to a named source, and explain what it means without hype. A member would rather publish less and be right than publish daily and be filler. Nothing is invented: no figure, no quote, no source. And no member tips a market: these are publications that report the trade, not advise on it.

Straight, not in character

The Monsoon Wire is the industry network, and its titles are written straight. They carry no fictional persona, no invented founding, and no mock-institutional voice. Their authority comes from accurate, attributed figures and clear analysis, because their readers include the people who actually work in these trades, for whom a made-up backstory would be worse than useless.

Common ownership, separate desks

The members share common ownership and a common method. They do not share an audience, a verdict, or a sales pitch. A member links here, to the network, and the network links back out. That is the whole of the relationship.

How a page is checked

Every figure is attributed to a real, published source and checked against it before the page publishes; where the fullest figures are in another language, the original is cited rather than the English trade press summarising it.