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Former Teen Vogue staffers took to social media Monday to mourn the loss of the magazine’s politics vertical and its team of progressive young journalists. Several users, including former staffers and advocates of the brand, condemned the magazine for its absorption of its youth arm. Condé Nast’s union “strongly condemned” the parent company’s decision to lump Teen Vogue under the Vogue.com umbrella. A statement from the union noted the move was “clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most.” “Condé leadership owes us–and Teen Vogue’s readership–answers. We will get those answers,” the guild’s statement read. “And 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.” STATEMENT: (1 of 2) We strongly condemn @CondeNast's consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. … pic.twitter.com/4th3573t5s— condeunion (@condeunion) November 3, 2025 As part of the restructuring, the magazine’s editor-in-chief Versha Sharma was laid off from the media company. Vogue’s new editorial content head Chloe Malle will now oversee both Vogue and Teen Vogue. The outlet’s news and politics editor Lex McMenamin was also laid off and wrote in a post to that to their knowledge there would be no “political staffers” left at the publication after today. Former Teen Vogue reporter Emily Bloch wrote that folding the youth magazine into Vogue.com is “more than an absorption” of the brand. She noted that the timing felt convenient just one day ahead of the New York mayoral election. “We now know that the Teen Vogue fold is more than an absorption & clearly a full shift from the pub’s DNA,” she wrote. “Laying off the entire politics team a day before the NYC election is heinous + a knife in the back to a brand that has solidified its importance for youth. Devastating.” We now know that the Teen Vogue fold is more than an absorption & clearly a full shift from the pub’s DNA. Laying off the entire politics team a day before the NYC election is heinous + a knife in the back to a brand that has solidified its importance for youth. Devastating.— Emily Bloch (@emdrums) November 3, 2025 “Laying off the Teen Vogue pol editor the day before a major election Teen Vogue has covered that is consequential to Teen Vogue’s main demographic….. got it,” Bloch wrote in another X post. Former style editor at Teen Vogue Aiyana Ishmael wrote in a post to Bluesky that she was laid off this week. Ishmael said she was one of two Black women left at the publication at their summit in late September. After the layoffs, she said they both are gone. “Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about,” she wrote. I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.[image or embed] — Aiyana Ishmael (@aiyanaish.bsky.social) November 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM Keep reading for more reactions to the Teen Vogue absorption: My feed rn is just testimonies from every young journalist who managed to flourish in this industry thanks to Teen Vogue giving them a chance. What a giant loss for the entire industry: especially for WOC and LGBTQ+ writers who had to work 10x as hard to get a foot in the door— samaa • سما (@samaakhullar) November 3, 2025 Such an unbelievable loss. The Teen Vogue politics team did important, singular work. Their coverage took seriously issues and audiences others had written off and made so many feel seen and respected. Now, these tremendous journalists are out of a job. Solidarity with them all. https://t.co/X9RkFZx1VP— Mia Jacobs (@miaajacobs) November 3, 2025 The team at Teen Vogue spearheaded extremely vital political conversations and gave so many journalists, especially POC + queer voices, a platform to write about things that mattered + a space that made young people feel politically capable outside of a filter bubble. It was a…— Maya (@maya_verses) November 3, 2025
