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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