"On November 3, Condé Nast announced that it was folding Teen Vogue into Vogue, thus laying off most of 's staff. Most devastatingly, the layoffs primarily affected their Black, brown, trans and queer workers and the publication's entire political desk, which had provided readers with rigorous and accurate reporting on systems of oppression, the policies they took shape as, and the progressive and left movements pushing back against them, thanks to a small team of dedicated editors and reporters."
"Teen Vogue was an outlier in the Vogue-sphere and a rarity in mainstream media. The racial and gender diversity of Teen Vogue 's workers reached beyond representational politics; it was also present in how they covered the news. It pushed as close as you could get to movement journalism within the mainstream sphere, right up to the boundary where advertisers might get nervous."
Condé Nast folded Teen Vogue into Vogue, triggering layoffs that disproportionately impacted Black, brown, trans, and queer staff and eliminated the publication's entire political desk. The political desk had delivered rigorous reporting on systems of oppression, the policies shaping those systems, and progressive and left movements resisting them, driven by a small team of dedicated editors and reporters. Teen Vogue combined racial and gender diversity with movement-oriented coverage, operating at the edge of mainstream acceptability. The closure reflects broader media consolidation since the 1996 Telecommunications Act and rising ownership concentration, and signals media capitulation to racist and authoritarian pressures while undermining recent diversity gains.
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