‘Teen Vogue’ strikes underneath Vogue.com, 6 staffers are laid off : NPR

Teen Vogue staffers have taken to social media to share the information they have been laid off, simply as Condé Nast introduced the outlet can be “becoming a member of Vogue.com, a transition that is a part of a broader push to increase the Vogue ecosystem.”

Teen Vogue coated style and celeb, but in addition took in-depth seems to be at politics and social justice points. Their writers have tackled all the things from local weather change to political pressures on universities, celeb fashion to Billie Eilish’s latest feedback about billionaires.

In line with a press release posted on X from Condé United, a bargaining unit of the union the NewsGuild of New York, six of its members who labored for Teen Vogue are being laid off.

The union assertion stated that many of the six “are BIPOC girls or trans, together with Teen Vogue‘s politics editor, . . . Teen Vogue now has no writers or editors explicitly protecting politics.” The assertion additionally says that after the layoffs, there is just one girl of coloration on the editorial workers.

A press release posted on Vogue.com stated that Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Versha Sharma “can be leaving the corporate.” Chloe Malle, head of editorial content material for American Vogue, will oversee the outlet.

“I used to be laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday, together with 70% of my unimaginable group,” Kaitlyn McNab Teen Vogue‘s tradition editor, posted on X. “For much longer put up incoming, however I needed to say thanks to everybody who has reached out to me with love. God acquired me. We transfer.”

The Roosevelt Institute, a progressive suppose tank which just lately awarded Teen Vogue its 2025 Freedom of Speech and Expression awards, criticized the transfer. “The choice by Condé Nast at present to break down this publication into Vogue and get rid of the politics reporting workers at Teen Vogue is proof that company focus eliminates revolutionary concepts and silences voices with much less energy,” it stated in a assertion.

Vogue stated the transfer is just not supposed to decrease Teen Vogue. It stated, “The title will stay a definite editorial property, with its personal identification and mission; sitting underneath the Vogue umbrella will present a extra unified reader expertise throughout titles.”

Vogue Enterprise, for trade professionals, was folded into Vogue.com‘s platform final week.

This story was edited by Jennifer Vanasco.