“Trump has gone so inward, so nationalistic, that readers are rebelling by going more global,” she said by telephone.īrexit is an obvious example. Stanley, 63, believe that American readers that are more interested than ever in matters abroad. With yellow-vest protests roiling France, Italian populists threatening an “Italexit” from the European Union, and a Chinese economic slowdown threatening the world economy, he and Ms. Carter said, is “designed to live in a Trump-free world” (he has been an antagonist of the president since the 1980s, when Spy magazine, which Mr. They’re not backpackers, and they’re not in Las Vegas, drinking Champagne and sitting around in their heart-shaped bathtub.”Īir Mail will steer clear of Washington politics.

“I don’t know what ours is yet, but I just have a rough idea. “The marketing executive in Soho House with the shaved head - that’s the Monocle reader,” said Mr. They want the readership of creative professionals who travel business class to know the latest vegan currywurst hot spots in Berlin, and crave more gravitas from foreign dispatches than, say, is in Monocle’s earnest short profiles on sustainability-minded Danish design executives. Carter’s romantic associations with those old-school Air Mail envelopes with the red and blue borders, which he still uses for bookmarks. Stanley plan to start out with a small team of editors, many of them young, hoping to reach members of the Snapchat generation as well as people old enough to share Mr.

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