Vanity Fair Editor-in-Chief Radhika Jones to Step Down

Vanity Fair’s Radhika Jones will step down from her role as editor-in-chief after seven years this spring, she announced in an email to staff on Thursday.

Jones, who succeeded longtime Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter in December 2017, cited the accomplishment of initial editorial goals and “the pull of new goals … around family and friends and writing and other ways to make an impact” as the catalyst for her decision, adding “I have always had a horror of staying too long at the party.”

In a meeting with Vanity Fair staff on Thursday, Condé Nast global chief content officer and American Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour said Jones will, in the coming weeks, assist in the transition as Condé Nast searches for a new editor-in-chief, and thanked Jones for “[her] high standards of journalism, [her] fearlessness and [her] empathetic leadership.”

Jones previously served as editorial director at The New York Times and deputy managing editor of Time.

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