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

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Phillip Faraone/Getty Photographs for Teen Vogue Teen Vogue staffers have taken to social media to share the information they have been laid off, simply as Condé Nast introduced the outlet will probably be "becoming a member of Vogue.com, a transition that is a part of a broader push to broaden the Vogue ecosystem."

Teen Vogue lined style and celeb, but additionally took in-depth appears to be like at politics and social justice points. Their writers have tackled every part from local weather change to political pressures on universities, celeb model to Billie Eilish's current feedback about billionaires.

In line with an announcement 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 mentioned that many of the six "are BIPOC ladies 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.

An announcement posted on Vogue.com mentioned that Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Versha Sharma "will probably 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 workforce," Kaitlyn McNab Teen Vogue's tradition editor, posted on X. "For much longer put up incoming, however I wished to say thanks to everybody who has reached out to me with love. God acquired me. We transfer."

I used to be laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday, together with 70% of my unimaginable workforce.

For much longer put up incoming, however I wished to say thanks to everybody who has reached out to me with love.

God acquired me. We transfer. ❤️🩹🚀

Money App: $kmcnabVenmo: @/kaitmcnab pic.twitter.com/MhzwZ12xcP

— kaitlyn mcnab (@kaitmcnab) November 4, 2025

The Roosevelt Institute, a progressive assume 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 eradicate the politics reporting workers at Teen Vogue is proof that company focus eliminates progressive concepts and silences voices with much less energy," it mentioned in an announcement.

Vogue mentioned the transfer just isn't supposed to decrease Teen Vogue. It mentioned, "The title will stay a definite editorial property, with its personal id and mission; sitting beneath the Vogue umbrella will present a extra unified reader expertise throughout titles."