Radhika Jones Departing as chief editor of Konde nast‘S Vanity Fair In this spring, he told the employees on Thursday.
Jones Vanity joined Fair in 2017She was earlier the editor of the New York Times Books section. Jones made Grandon Carter a success, who left the post after 25 years in publication. Jones was the first female editor of Vanity Fair as Tina Brown served as the editor of the magazine from 1984 to 1992.
“People who know me well, know that I can be a little restless, once a mission is complete,” Jones has written to the Vanity Fair Staffers in Memo. “And I have always got terror to stay in the party for a very long time. So I have decided to leave the Vanity Fair in this spring. It was a difficult decision, as it has been a tremendous privilege to lead this team.”
Here is the Memo Jones to be sent to VF employees on Thursday:
Hello everyone,
At the end of every year, I look at the memo written back in 2017 when I was interviewing to be the editor of the Vanity Fair, as a way to recall the goals made by me and examine my progress. Last year, my surprise to some extent, I realized that with your help – I had met all those goals. Vanity Fair is a rich modern publication, which has incisive, lively reporting; A huge and highly attractive social media audience; A studio business under our belt and with great projects working on FX, Amazon, Netflix, and more; A video powerhouse; And an epic party machine, which had this year’s Oscar party (my seventh!) Wage. We are completely at home in our world.
It was satisfying, but it was also a bit shocking, to feel that I could check those boxes. And at the same time I started feeling, more powerful, pull new goals in your life, to create an impact around family and friends and other methods. People who know me well, know that I can be a little restless, once a mission is complete. And I have always got terror to stay in the party for a very long time. So I have decided to leave the Vanity Fair in this spring. This was a difficult decision, as it has been a tremendous privilege to lead this team. Our work has been a beacon. We have published incredible writing by everyone from J’smine Ward to James Pog. Last night I went to the Whitney Museum and saw the painting of Amy Sherld’s Branna Taylor, which was hanging prominently in his new show, “American Sabalime”. That piece of art will not be present in the world, we did not pay commission for our September 2020 issue cover, and publishing it is one of the most glorious moments of my entire career – and one of many proud moments here at Vanity Fair.
I liked to work with all of you, for all the reasons you know. We have come through a lot of challenges, from Kovid on, for which we did not have any playbook; We wrote ourselves. I would always be grateful to David Ramanic for bringing at the door, for the years to support Anna Wintor and Roger Lynch for years, and for their leadership of these magazines for the Newhouse family. I would like to say goodbye and I would personally thank each of you in the coming days. For now, know that I admire all of you, I believe in you, and I will root down for you and Vanity Fair.
Radhika
