Condé Nast US has made a number of radical changes to staff this week as part of its major restructure.
Glamour publisher Connie Anne Phillips, Bride publisher Michelle Myers and Allure publisher Agnes Chapski have all been let go according to an internal memo from the company. This follows the departure of W executive beauty editor Jane Larkworthy.
Last year it was announced that Condé Nast would be rolling out a major restructuring strategy similar to that of Time Inc., which involves streamlining and sharing resources across five different teams: copy/research, editorial, creative, business, and technology.
Titles will be organised by vertical and headed up by newly titled chief business officers who have already been appointed. They are Kim Kelleher (Glamour, Allure, Brides, Teen Vogue and Self), Giulio Capua (Architectural Digest, Condé Nast Traveler, Bon Appétit and Epicurious), Chris Mitchell (Vanity Fair and W) and Howard Mittman (GQ, GQ Style, Golf Digest, Golf World, the Wired Media Group and Pitchfork).
Vogue and The New Yorker will remain as standalone publications with their respective publishers.
The changes at Condé Nast also mark a departure from the use of the word 'publisher'. This could indicate a desire to separate its image from that of the print industry.
