There will be someone new Vanity Next year to beg an invitation to the Magazine’s essential Oscar party.
After almost eight years of publication, Radhika Jones told her staff and scribes today that she was going out as editor. “Those of you who know me well know that I can be a little agitated, once a mission is accomplished” Time,, New York Times And Paris Review The alum wrote on Thursday to his colleagues from Condé Nast. And I have always had the horror to stay at the party for too long. So I made the decision to leave Vanity this spring. “”
Preparing for the Met Gala this year, Vogue Anna Wintour spoke to Queenpin and Condé Nast staff. “Radhika has been as comfortable on the red carpet as the first row seated, and graciously organized the legendary Hollywood celebration. She did everything with balance and spirit and wisdom,” she said.
Wintour added: “In the coming weeks, Radhika will help us with the transition when we start the search for a new publisher,” continued Wintour. “We are looking forward to Vanity Fair’s Next exciting chapter. Radhika, we are so grateful to your high standards of journalism, your fearlessness and your empathetic leadership. We will miss you a lot.
Shine as Vanity He himself, the real reasons behind the sudden movement of Jones from the top of the head of one of the rare powerful positions in the publication. Cerdé Nast has been certainly known for a long time to resemble the Roman Colosseum in its glory days with regard to jockey for favor and prestige, with Wintour the greatest gladiator of all under the Newhouse regime. In addition, the drop in magazine advertising and audience in the past two decades has reduced glamor and financial glory to size.
However, after taking over in late 2017 after a rule of 25 years from Graydon Carter at the time VF Fine, Jones seemed very safe in his position when the strength of online magazine increased considerably. To this, coming from this year news, making the Oscar Day and in a world of AI, Trump 2.0 and the solidification of technology as a cultural power, Jones probably knew also while obtaining was still good, say sources. It was a message transmitted through the corridors of the headquarters of the One World Trade Center, because the tightening of the belt seems to have come to the home of the New York,, Vogue, VF And the more, the sources also say.
No successor to Jones, who was a surprise choice to replace Career in 2017, has not yet been identified or announced.
Jones is not the only one Vanity The editor has done news this week. Carter, who continued to train online Air mail in 2019 with ex-NytEr Alessandra Stanley saw her When the progress was good: the adventures of an editor during the last golden age of magazines Memoir in the upper levels of the best -sellers lists and Amazon commands – which means that it has made a lot of press.
Read the full note by Radhika Jones at Vanity Staff below:
Hello everyone,
At the end of each year, I looked at the memo I wrote in 2017 when I was interviewing to be the editor -in -chief of Vanity Fair, in order to remember the goals I had and to check my progress. Last year, to my surprise, I realized that – with your help – I had achieved almost all these objectives. Vanity Fair is a flourishing modern publication with incisive animated reports; a vast and very engaging audience of social media; A studio company with great projects to our credit and in preparation on FX, Amazon, Netflix and more; video power; And an epic festive machine, to which the Oscar party of this year (my seventh!) Was the will. We are fully with us in our worlds.
It was rewarding, but also a little shocking, to feel that I could check these boxes. And simultaneously, I started to feel, more powerfully, the attraction of new objectives of my life, around family and friends and writing and other ways of having an impact. Those of you who know me well know that I can be a little agitated, once a mission is accomplished. And I have always had the horror to stay at the party for too long. So I made the decision to leave Vanity Fair this spring. It was a difficult decision because it was a huge privilege to lead this team. Our work was a tag. We have published an incredible writing, from everyone, from Jesmyn Ward to James Pogue. Last night, I went to the Whitney Museum and I saw the painting of Amy Sherald by Breonna Taylor, suspended in good place in his new show, “American sublime”. This work of art would not exist in the world if we have not ordered it for the coverage of our September 2020 issue, and the publication remains one of the most proud moments in my entire career – and one of the many proud moments here in Vanity Fair.
I loved working with all of you, for all the reasons you know. We went through many challenges, from Covid, for which we had no manual; We wrote ours. I will always be grateful to David Remnick for having brought me into the door, Anna Wintour and Roger Lynch for their support over the years and the Newhouse family for their stewardship of these magazines. I mean goodbye and thank each of you individually in the days to come. For the moment, know that I all admire you, I believe in you, and I will be rooted for you and for Vanity Fair.
Radhika
