Condé Nast folded Teen Vogue into Vogue and laid off the politics team

Condé Nast announced on November 3, 2025 that Teen Vogue would be folded into Vogue.com as a dedicated editorial pillar. Editor-in-chief Versha Sharma departed and was replaced by Chloe Malle, Vogue's head of editorial content. The 22-year-old brand, once the most politically outspoken Condé Nast title, was consolidated into its parent brand without its own standalone website.

The NewsGuild-CWA strongly condemned the plan, stating it was "clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine's insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most." Six union members were laid off including the Politics Editor; nearly all were BIPOC women, trans, or LGBTQ staffers. The union noted that after the layoffs, Teen Vogue had no writers or editors explicitly covering politics, and only one woman of color remained on the editorial staff.

Condé Nast framed the move as a strategic unification: Teen Vogue would continue as a distinct pillar within Vogue.com, focusing on career development and youth issues. But the union's charge that the consolidation was designed to neuter the brand's political coverage reflected broader tension between Condé Nast's commercial interests and Teen Vogue's activist editorial direction under Versha Sharma.