Radhika Jones, editor -in -chief of Vanity Fair since 2017, said on Thursday that she would resign after seven years of management of the magazine.
Ms. Jones, 52, said in an email to Vanity Fair staff that she was leaving to take up new challenges, adding that she did not want to feel “the horror of staying for the party for too long”.
“I started to feel, more powerfully, the attraction of new goals of my life, around family and friends and writing and other ways of having an impact,” wrote Ms. Jones.
Ms. Jones said in her email that her last day would be in the spring.
Anna Wintour, the content manager of Condé Nast, the publisher of Vanity Fair, told staff on Thursday that Ms. Jones would help with the transition “while we start the search for a new publisher”.
“We are impatiently awaiting the next exciting chapter of Vanity Fair,” said Ms. Wintour.
Ms. Jones leaves one of the best jobs in journalism at a time of deep disturbance for the magazine. Although many magazines have been closed or sold in recent decades, while the advertising pages have shrunk, Vanity Fair has maintained itself as a must -have of Condé Nast, who also publishes Vogue and the New Yorker.
Ms. Jones started the position in December 2017, succeeding Graydon Carter, who retired that year after 25 years at the helm. Ms. Jones was a surprise choice to replace Mr. Carter. Former editorial director of the Books Department of the New York Times and former editor -in -chief of Time magazine, Ms. Jones was chosen for the best job on many lieutenants of Mr. Carter.
