Teen Vogue is being adopted by its mother or father magazine.
Condé Nast mentioned on Monday that it'll fold Teen Vogue into Vogue.com.
Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Versha Sharma is out as a part of the transfer, amongst different layoffs. However we hear that half the crew is staying.
Half a dozen of these nonetheless on board are in editorial, and at the very least one viewers growth individual shall be absorbed into Condé Nast, in accordance with firm chatter.
Sharma began as EIC in 2021.
Vogue's head of editorial content material, Chloe Malle, who was appointed to the highest function on the trend bible in September, will oversee Teen Vogue going ahead.
Mentioned an insider, “It might've been a complete massacre, however they've determined to spend money on it.”
Condé Nast's union “strongly condemned” the corporate's determination, saying in a press release: “Condé management owes us — and Teen Vogue's readership — solutions. We are going to get these solutions.” The union's assertion added: “Administration plans to put off six of our members, most of whom are BIPOC girls or trans, together with Teen Vogue's Politics Editor — persevering with the pattern of layoffs at Condé disproportionately impacting marginalized staff… Teen Vogue now has no writers or editors explicitly protecting politics.”
Some staffers posted on social media that they'd been let go.
Information and politics editor Lex McMenamin posted on social media app Bluesky on Monday: “I used to be laid off from Teen Vogue immediately together with a number of different staffers, and immediately is my final day… definitely extra to come back from me when the mud has settled extra, however to my information, after immediately, there shall be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.”
Type editor Aiyana Ishmael posted: “Teen Vogue was and can all the time be a particular place and I'm so disheartened to see so many proficient creatives and editors lose their jobs,” and, “I used to be laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside a number of different phenomenal crew members.”
The announcement coincidentally was on the identical day because the Council of Style Designers of America awards, and a supply mentioned that Sharma had been selecting out her gown for the occasion.
A Vogue rep didn't remark once we reached out. An insider instructed us that Condé Nast bosses Anna Wintour and Roger Lynch need Teen Vogue to retain its personal independence.
Malle mentioned in a press release on Monday of the transfer, in accordance with Vogue.com: “I keep in mind when Teen Vogue launched, I learn each web page on the bus dwelling from cross-country observe… I cherished it then and I really like and respect it now and am dedicated to persevering with and supporting its viewpoint and sensibility.”
Teen Vogue had already ceased a print version in 2017 earlier than it went digital-only.
Vogue Enterprise additionally was introduced into the Vogue.com fold. “We're wanting ahead to this new chapter. In our more and more fragmented media panorama, making all Vogue — Teen Vogue and Vogue Enterprise — accessible in a single place units us up for progress,” added Malle.
Wintour, the worldwide chief content material officer for Condé Nast, mentioned in a press release: “Because the media business modifications so shortly, we're thrilled to have Teen Vogue be part of the Vogue platform, permitting its content material to achieve a bigger viewers and encourage younger folks globally… We're so grateful for Versha's management and the affect she's had throughout her time at Teen Vogue. Her imaginative and prescient guided it via an necessary interval of change, and she or he was instrumental in constructing out the Teen Vogue Summit. All of us stay up for seeing what she does subsequent, and need her the very best.”
Sharma didn't instantly tackle her exit on social media.
