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Teen Vogue To Blend Into Vogue.com

Teen Vogue To Blend Into Vogue.com

It’s the end of an era — and the beginning of something quite different. Teen Vogue, once a plucky, standalone digital voice with a surprising pivot into progressive politics and youth-driven activism, is being folded into the mother ship: Vogue.com. As of Monday, Condé Nast confirmed that Teen Vogue will no longer operate as an independent vertical, and its editor-in-chief Versha Sharma is officially out.

My 11-year-old subscribes to Teen Vogue and reads the newsletters almost daily. It’s been a reliable source of news for her, and fodder for thoughtful dinner table discussions.

Now, it will serve a new role in our house–as an opportunity to learn about boycotting companies that let us down.

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— Jess Calarco (@jessicacalarco.com) November 4, 2025 at 6:03 AM


This restructuring marks yet another reshuffle in the fast-moving and often brutal world of media consolidation. Half the Teen Vogue staff is staying on, including a handful of editorial team members and at least one audience development specialist, but it’s clear that the days of Teen Vogue as its own unique brand — one that drew headlines as often for its op-eds on capitalism and climate justice as for its red carpet coverage — are over.

Another example of vibe shift between Trump’s first presidency and now: In 2017, Teen Vogue stood out for outspoken, social-justice politics. In 2025, it laid off its entire politics team, including the last two Black women journalists on staff.

NBC and CBS have made similar moves.

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— Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life.bsky.social) November 4, 2025 at 5:32 AM


The move comes with high-level leadership changes. Chloe Malle, recently installed as Vogue’s head of editorial content, will now oversee Teen Vogue as well. She’s playing the long game — promising to preserve the magazine’s “sensibility” and “point of view” — but many inside and outside the company are watching closely to see what, if anything, of Teen Vogue’s original DNA survives this transition.

There’s no mistaking that big corporate media are targeting people of colour, women especially, and trans people. It was Teen Vogue yesterday, CBS a few days before and ofc Wapo.

These are purges by right-wing media of voices that challenge radical white Christian nationalism.

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— Billie Jean Sweeney (@billiejsweeney.bsky.social) November 4, 2025 at 5:32 AM


Meanwhile, Condé Nast’s union has issued a blistering statement condemning the layoffs, particularly noting the disproportionate impact on BIPOC and trans staffers. Notably, Teen Vogue’s politics editor, Lex McMenamin, confirmed they were among those let go — meaning the brand now has no dedicated politics team, despite having built a substantial reputation in that space in recent years.

Teen Vogue produced some of the best political reporting in the nation and we’re not even a year into this cursed presidency

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— Gaia Vince (@wanderinggaia.bsky.social) November 4, 2025 at 4:08 AM


It’s a curious reversal. Teen Vogue made waves by stepping far outside the expected bounds of a fashion magazine for teens. Under Sharma and others before her, the publication became something of a cultural lightning rod — praised by some for its progressive commentary, criticized by others for seeming to lean too hard into activism at the expense of journalistic balance.


But the underlying reality is tougher than ideology. The media landscape is unforgiving, especially for niche brands. Teen Vogue’s print edition shuttered back in 2017, and while its digital transformation was initially heralded as bold and forward-looking, it’s ultimately been absorbed into a broader, leaner Vogue ecosystem. Vogue Business, another once-separate vertical, is joining the same platform — signaling that Condé Nast is looking to consolidate its audience under fewer roofs.


What’s clear is that Anna Wintour and Roger Lynch are betting on unified strength. By bringing Teen Vogue into the Vogue.com fold, they hope to gain scale and cohesion in a fractured, noisy digital market. Whether that gambit works remains to be seen.

Written by Mark Stevens - November 5, 2025