Teen Vogue’s # 2 editor is leaving the Condé Nast title – a day after Alexi McCammond, who would become editor-in-chief next week, resigned in a storm of controversy over racist tweets she made a decade earlier as a freshman. .
“I’ve been on this announcement for a while, but today is my last day as editor-in-chief at @TeenVogue!” Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Teen Vogue Editor-in-Chief, announced her departure on Twitter on Friday“Working here has been one of the most rewarding, challenging and important experiences of my life.”
“The work we’ve done at Teen Vogue is historic and I know the team will only continue this legacy. It has been a difficult year and some very difficult weeks for us. It will take a while to process everything, ”she continued.
“But I remain steadfast in my belief in the transformative power of storytelling and in the importance of amplifying the most marginalized voices, the ones that set us free.”
Mukhopadhyay – seen as one of the driving forces behind the digital magazine’s aggressive push to cover LBGTQ issues and the presidential election, expanding readership beyond the makeup and fashion world – declined to comment further on Friday.
However, her departure did not appear to be directly related to the McCammond unrest, and was reportedly announced internally about six weeks ago.
A source familiar with Mukopadhyay, who joined Teen Vogue in 2018, said she had made the decision to step down when previous editor Lindsey Peoples Wagner announced her departure in early January and said she was returning to New York magazine to to take over her fashion blog, The Cut.
Her departure indicates that Conde Nast, honcho Anna Wintour, had no ‘Plan B’ to promote an internal candidate to fill the vacant editor-in-chief at Teen Vogue now that Alexi McCammond has stepped down.
Spokespersons for Conde Nast did not immediately call back.