Last weekend, staffers at Graydon Carter’s Air Mail gathered in Genoa, where one of the site’s editors was getting married in a high-society fête at a family palazzo. It was a fitting setting for a venture that aspired to give a glossy treatment to an online-only publication — think of it, Carter said at its launch in 2019, as “the weekend edition of a nonexistent international daily.” Catering to highbrow news consumers with travel recommendations and magazine-length dispatches from across the globe on fashion, art, scandal, and politics, it was a taste of Carter’s Vanity Fair for the digital set. The issue hits your inbox every Saturday, Maureen Dowd once wrote , “like something wrapped in cashmere.”

Now it will come wrapped in Puck. After weeks of negotiations the newslette

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