Vanity Fair Editor at Chief Radhika Jones calls her to rest – and Anna Wintour’s reaction surprised staff

Vanity Fair Editorry at Chief Radhika Jones announced on Thursday that she is leaving Condã © Nast after a 7-year run poisoning the culture and monthly magazine focused on celebrities.

Jones, who threw the reins after editor Graydon Carter retired in 2017, ending a 25-year run, told the staff at a meeting at 12:30 in the Vanity Fair offices at a World Trade Center in New York that she would depart in the spring.

“It was a difficult decision because it was an extraordinary privilege to lead this team. Our work has been a lantern,” Jones said in a wide company memorandum taken from the post. .

A source close to the situation said Jones has thought of leaving Conde Nast, home for Vogue, New Yorker and Wired, for a while.

Artistic director and editor -in -chief Nast Vogue, Anna Wintour attended the meeting and was said to be “tearful” while Jones bid farewell, captivating some staff for the rare expression of emotion.

Jones is said to have made seven figures – a considerable salary at a time when big wages, black cars and clothing extras are a thing of the past.

“The big wage days in Condã © are over – she was in seven figures – and she did nowhere near what Graydon did!

A new editor will be named at a later time.

A knowledge source said the other editor is likely to be younger and have a thinner salary.

A representative for Condã © Nast refused to comment.

Jones leaves the company at a particularly difficult time for magazines, which have been squeezed by advertising and reading declines.

She arranged staff for her achievements and recalled her time as an editor.

“At the end of each year, I look at the memorandum I wrote again in 2017 when I was interviewing to be Vanity Fair’s editor as a way of remembering my goals and checking my progress. Last year, somehow to my surprise, I realized that” with your help “I had achieved all those goals,” she said.

Wintour added to her memorandum: “In the beginning of this week, Radhika was describing her deep pride in her Breonna Taylor’s Amy Sherrald’s painting commission for Vanity Fair’s September 2020, and what a cultural determinant that had been.