One of the last remaining publications dedicated to teens and young adults is undergoing a transformation. Today, Condé Nast announced that Teen Vogue will now live at Vogue.com and that the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Versha Sharma, will be stepping down. Chloe Malle, Vogue’s new head of editorial content, will oversee the publication in Sharma’s place. The move follows last week’s news that Vogue Business will officially move under the Vogue.com umbrella as well.
According to the announcement, Teen Vogue will remain “a distinct editorial property, with its own identity and mission.” The magazine had already ceased printing, releasing a final print issue with Hillary Clinton on the cover in December 2017 before becoming a digital-only publication. During that time, and continuing under Sharma’s direction, the outlet had shifted its focus toward discussing politics and human rights head-on, laying a strong stake in the media landscape as a reliable place for young people to seek out sociopolitical coverage. From interviewing Zohran Mamdani on the campaign trail to catching up with Greta Thunberg fresh out of her detention in an Israeli prison to breaking down the lessons that Black Lives Matter taught protesters, Teen Vogue has been considered a platform for young progressives inside the glossy confines of Condé Nast. While the company’s announcement makes no explicit mention of the future of the outlet’s political coverage, Lex McMenamin, the magazine’s now-former politics editor who was laid off in yesterday’s merge, posted to BlueSky that, to their knowledge, “after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.”
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
— Lex McMenamin (they/them) (@leximcmenamin.com) 2025-11-03T19:52:01.145Z
“We are looking forward to this new chapter. In our increasingly fragmented media landscape, making all Vogue — Teen Vogue and Vogue Business — accessible in one place sets us up for growth,” Malle said in the announcement, noting she grew up reading the teen magazine herself. “I loved it then and I love and respect it now, and am committed to continuing and supporting its point of view and sensibility.”
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In a statement from Condé Nast’s union, Condé United, and its parent union, the NewsGuild of New York, both groups “strongly” condemned the merger, a move they believe “is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most.” The letter also noted that six staffers were laid off, “most of whom are BIPOC women or trans.”
In the days following the magazines’ consolidation, Semafor’s media writer, Max Tani, reported that four Condé Nast employees, including from The New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit, were fired after confronting the head of human resources, Stan Duncan, “over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts.” A group of over a dozen Condé Nast employees had reportedly gathered outside of Duncan’s office, asking questions about the Teen Vogue news. In response, Condé Nast reportedly filed a charge with the National Labor Relations Board against the NewsGuild of New York, accusing the union of “repeated and egregious disregard of our collective bargaining agreement.” The union fired back in a statement, calling the firings a “flagrant breach of the Just Cause terms” of their contract and a violation of the former employees’ “federally protected rights as union members to participate in a collective action.” The memo also noted that one of the terminated employees was a White House reporter covering Trump’s term.
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