Alexi McCammond, Teen Vogue Editor, Resigns

“Our teams, our families and our friends are all affected by the rise in hate crimes against Asians and this is unacceptable,” Lynch wrote in the memo reviewed by The Times.

Ms. McCammond had been vetted before Condé Nast hired her, and top executives including Mr. Lynch and Anna Wintour, Vogue’s chief content officer and global editor-in-chief, were aware of decades of racist tweets, Duncan said in his note on Thursday, and Ms. McCammond confirmed it in interviews with the company.

Ms. Wintour discussed the tweets with color guides at Condé Nast before the job was offered, according to a company executive who spoke about a personnel issue on condition of anonymity. Ms. McCammond beat the Condé Nast leaders as a formidable candidate, the executive said, and she felt that her apology for 2019 showed that she had learned from her mistakes.

Although the company was aware of the racist tweets, it knew nothing about the homophobic tweets or a photo, also from 2011, that was recently posted by a right-wing website showing them in Native American costumes at a Halloween party, the company said Executive. The review process did not reveal any additional material as it had been deleted, the executive added.

Condé Nast has expected complaints about racism in its workplace and content over the past year. In June, amid the protests against Black Lives Matter, Ms. Wintour sent a message to Vogue staff stating that under her leadership, the magazine had given “black editors, writers, photographers, designers and other creators” insufficient space acknowledge that it “posted pictures or stories that were hurtful or intolerant”.

Adam Rapoport, editor-in-chief of another Condé Nast publication, Bon Appétit, stepped down in June after a photo of him re-emerged on social media.

For the past two weeks as complaints have increased, Ms. Wintour has been trying to build support for the budding editor of Teen Vogue. Ms. McCammond also attended meetings with Condé Nast staff and other groups to further apologize and listen to their concerns, including one-on-one meetings with journalists at Teen Vogue, six people said with knowledge of the meetings.

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