{"id":353965,"date":"2025-11-04T02:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/353965\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T02:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:20:16","slug":"as-conde-nast-folds-teen-vogue-into-vogue-newsguild-condemns-the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/353965\/","title":{"rendered":"As Cond\u00e9 Nast Folds Teen Vogue Into Vogue, NewsGuild Condemns the Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe union representing writers at Teen Vogue<\/a> is slamming the youth-focused publication\u2019s merger with the Vogue<\/a> website and raising concerns about impacts on staff diversity and political coverage.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter on Monday, Cond\u00e9 United and parent union The NewsGuild of New York said they \u201cstrongly condemn Cond\u00e9 Nast\u2019s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue.\u201d The labor<\/a> groups claim the move was \u201cclearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine\u2019s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVogue announced<\/a> that the 22-year-old brand would be folded into the flagship brand\u2019s website on Monday. Though the title is set to continue as a \u201cdistinct editorial property,\u201d the magazine\u2019s current editor-in-chief Versha Sharma is leaving the company and Vogue head of editorial content Chloe Malle will take the reins.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement, Malle said she was dedicated to \u201ccontinuing and supporting its point of view and sensibility.\u201d The announcement added that, on Vogue.com, Teen Vogue will focus on \u201ccareer development, cultural leadership and other issues that matter most to young people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe newsroom union claims the change is throttling staff diversity and muting the magazine\u2019s progressive political bent.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cManagement plans to lay off six of our members, most of whom are BIPOC women or trans, including Teen Vogue\u2019s Politics Editor \u2014 continuing the trend of layoffs at Cond\u00e9 disproportionately impacting marginalized employees,\u201d the organizations stated. They added, \u201cTeen Vogue now has no writers or editors explicitly covering politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe groups continued, \u201cAs of today, only one woman of color remains on the editorial staff at\u00a0Teen Vogue.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEstablished in 2003, Teen Vogue began as a fashion- and celebrity-focused publication under the direction of former Vogue beauty director Amy Astley. Its first cover star was Gwen Stefani, followed by Beyonc\u00e9 one month later. The clothes on display weren\u2019t all couture, but they did represent an aspirational lifestyle: It was common to see individual items priced at hundreds of dollars, from Prada subsidiary Miu Miu or French luxury label A.P.C., on the magazine\u2019s pages.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe magazine\u2019s focus took a turn under the leadership of former editor Elaine Welteroth, who was named editor-in-chief in 2016. The publication amped up its coverage of politics, immigration, labor and climate change. Even after Teen Vogue ceased print publication in 2017 and Welteroth departed a year later, its site kept jumping into the fray on President Donald Trump, the war in Gaza, even progressive New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn their statement, Cond\u00e9 United and the NewsGuild of New York vowed to get more clarity on Teen Vogue\u2019s trajectory moving forward. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCond\u00e9 leadership owes us answers \u2013 and Teen Vogue\u2019s readership. We will get those answers,\u201d they said. \u201cAnd we fight for our rights as workers with a collective bargaining agreement as we fight for the work we do, and the people we do it for.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRead the union\u2019s full statement below.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe NewsGuild of New York and Cond\u00e9 United strongly condemn Cond\u00e9 Nast\u2019s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine\u2019s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most.<\/p>\n

\n\tManagement plans to lay off six of our members, most of whom are BIPOC women or trans, including Teen Vogue\u2019s Politics Editor \u2014 continuing the trend of layoffs at Cond\u00e9 disproportionately impacting marginalized employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn its announcement today<\/a>, Cond\u00e9 management said as a \u201cdedicated pillar\u201d on Vogue, Teen Vogue will \u201cfocus its content on career development, cultural leadership and other issues that matter most to young people, according to the publication.\u201d\u00a0Teen Vogue now has no writers or editors explicitly covering politics.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere was no mention in the announcement of the coverage that has earned Teen Vogue massive readership and\u00a0wide praise\u00a0<\/a>from across the journalism industry. Gone is the\u00a0political-cultural criticism of the fashion and culture industries by the Black women writers laid off today. Gone are the incisive and artful depictions of young people from the Asian and Latina women photographers laid off today. Gone, from the lauded politics section, is the work that made possible the blockbuster cover of Vivian Wilson, one of Cond\u00e9 Nast\u2019s top performing stories of the year, coordinated by the singular trans staffer laid off today. Nearly all of these staffers identify as LGBTQ. As of today, only one woman of color remains on the editorial staff at\u00a0Teen Vogue.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCond\u00e9 leadership owes us answers \u2013 and Teen Vogue\u2019s readership. We will get those answers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd we fight for our rights as workers with a collective bargaining agreement as we fight for the work we do, and the people we do it for.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The union representing writers at Teen Vogue is slamming the youth-focused publication\u2019s merger with the Vogue website and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":353966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,606,172967,67,132,68,16536],"class_list":{"0":"post-353965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-labor","10":"tag-teen-vogue","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-vogue"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115489041680646666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}