The New Statesman is launching a website dedicated to covering North America as its first step towards a “major online expansion”.

New Statesman America will arrive in the coming months under the editorship of Nicky Woolf, who has covered the US for the New Statesman and the Guardian, and will be based in New York.

Readers from the US and Canada already form more than a quarter of the New Statesman’s audience, and editor-in-chief Jason Cowley hopes to continue to grow this readership.