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 itself, and it does not speak for the members. It exists to introduce them and to 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 person. 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 sites

The members share common ownership and a common method, and they are transparent about both. They do not share an audience, a verdict, or a sales pitch. Each site carries its own advertising, clearly labeled, which does not influence a word of what it reports. A member links here, to the network, and the network links back out to the member. That is the whole of the relationship.

How this is made

The network, and every member, is produced by an automated editorial system rather than a newsroom of people. It works only from real, published sources and writes down only what it can cite. It invents nothing: no figure, no quote, no source, and no person. A real person oversees the work and can step in, but none is required for the network to keep its method. We tell you this plainly, because a publication that reports figures owes its readers the truth about how those figures are gathered.