{"id":209441,"date":"2021-03-24T00:29:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T21:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/anna-wintour-to-cast-wide-net-for-alexi-mccammond-replacement\/"},"modified":"2021-03-24T00:29:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T21:29:56","slug":"anna-wintour-to-cast-wide-net-for-alexi-mccammond-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/anna-wintour-to-cast-wide-net-for-alexi-mccammond-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"#Anna Wintour to cast wide net for Alexi McCammond replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Anna Wintour to cast wide net for Alexi McCammond replacement<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s back to the drawing board for Anna Wintour. <\/p>\n

Although there were a handful of other candidates in the running to take over Teen Vogue before Wintour\u2019s top pick of Alexi McCammond blew up in her face, the Cond\u00e9 Nast chief content officer won\u2019t be defaulting to a runner-up, sources said. <\/p>\n

The long-time editor-in-chief of Vogue and inspiration for the film \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada\u201d wants to vet more candidates before making a final call, which means it could be awhile before she finds a replacement for McCammond, who resigned in a storm of controversy last week, sources said. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think something about the way this went down has made Anna Wintour want to cast a wider net,\u201d said a source familiar with the process. \u201cI think the trick now is finding someone who will be willing to inherit the scandal, be able to app<\/a>ease advertisers who paused their spending and build on the equity of justice reporting that Teen Vogue is known for.\u201d <\/p>\n

Sources say Wintour had backed McCammond\u2019s hiring almost until the very end, hoping that controversial anti-Asian tweets, which the company had known about in the hiring process, would not become an issue. <\/p>\n

The tweets, which referenced \u201cAsian eyes\u201d and a \u201cstupid Asian\u201d teacher\u2019s assistant, dated to 2011 during McCammond\u2019s freshman year in college at the University of Chicago. McCammond, now 27, first apologized for the deleted the tweets when they first surfaced two years as an Axios political reporter.<\/p>\n

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Alexi McCammond resigned in a storm of controversy last week.<\/figcaption>
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But backlash was harsh after Cond\u00e9 Nast announced it would be putting McCammond in charge of editorial staffers for the first time in her career at a time of surging violence against Asians, including last week\u2019s mass killings in Atlanta. Advertisers pulled out and she resigned. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy understanding is that Cond\u00e9 was very behind Alexi up until the resignation and that Anna was really upset at the turn of events,\u201d one source said.<\/p>\n

Now the disastrous turn of events has media<\/a> watchers predicting what, if any, long-term damage this might create for Wintour, who continues to wield ever more power at Cond\u00e9 Nast despite harsh criticisms over her handling of race and diversity issues in the past. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s 70 years old, but she still seems to be expanding her responsibilities,\u201d said an insider who noted that she was recently promoted from artistic director of US Cond\u00e9 Nast to chief content officer with global responsibility. \u201cWe were all kind of hoping her responsibilities by now would have been becoming more symbolic but instead she\u2019s adding to them,\u201d this person added. <\/p>\n

Back in June 2020, a group of black journalists called on Wintour to resign over her propensity to hire thin white staffer with ties to the upper class. Wintour at the time acknowledged her past shortcomings in a companywide memo and pledged to make more diverse hires. <\/p>\n

And for about a day following the March 5 news<\/a> of her tapping McCammond, Wintour appeared to be in keeping with that promise. McCammond, who has tangled with everyone from Donald Trump to Charles Barkley, was tagged by the National Association of Black Journalists as the emerging journalist of the year in 2019. <\/p>\n

Author and blogger Steve Blacker, who consulted with Cond\u00e9 Nast in the 1990s, sees the McCammond pick at a time of rising anti-Asian sentiment as pure foolishness. \u201cIt shows Cond\u00e9 Nast to be a bunch of bumbling clowns,\u201d Blacker said. \u201cWhy didn\u2019t [CEO] Roger Lynch step in say let\u2019s look at more candidates?\u201d<\/p>\n

But other sources are brushing off any concerns of damage to Wintour\u2019s reputation, noting that she\u2019s no stranger to controversy. \u201cAnna is impervious, I doubt this is going to affect her in any way.\u201d <\/p>\n

Though originally designed as a fashion and cosmetic title for teens when it launched in 2003, the monthly mag soon became known for covering complex political, sex and social justice issues following its conversion to digital-only in 2017. <\/p>\n

But Lindsay Peoples Wagner, who spearheaded much of that coverage, recently exited as top editor to return to New York magazine as editor of The Cut, its fashion and style vertical. The No. 2 editor, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, who also played a key role in the social issues coverage under Peoples Wagner, was on her way out at the same time, telling friends she planned to write a book. Her last day was Friday. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Wintour is expected to largely look outside the Cond\u00e9 empire for a new chief. \u201cAnna likes to look outside,\u201d said one Cond\u00e9 Nast veteran on the inside, \u201cbecause she wants someone to shake things up.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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