HER FAIR SNARES

VF’s Jones taps vets for open slots

Ten days after Vanity Fair’s new editor Radhika Jones took an ax to 20 staffers she inherited from Graydon Carter, she is slowly filling some of the positions.

Claire Howorth, most recently an assistant managing editor at Time, joins VF as deputy editor. Howorth, who began her career at the Condé Nast monthly, had been overseeing Time’s Motto, a vertical aimed at millennial women.

Howorth has a working relationship with celebrity contributors like George Clooney and Hillary Clinton.

Caryn Prime was named director of editorial operations — managing the operations of the print magazine. Prime was most recently at Coveteur.com but had earlier worked at Marie Claire, Lucky and Elle Decor.

Keziah Weir joins as an associate editor from Elle, where she wrote celebrity profiles and the Coach of the Month column.

In addition, VF promoted Lizzie Wolff to senior director of communications, replacing Carter’s longtime top PR executive Beth Kseniak, who was swept out when Jones handed out nearly two dozen pink slips on Feb. 15.

Also on Monday, Jones was given a jolt when Stephanie Mehta — one of three deputy editors under Carter and the only one to survive the post-Valentine’s day purge — said she was jumping to become editor-in-chief at Mansueto Ventures’ Fast Company.

Mehta had coordinated VF’s New Establishment issue. With Mehta’s exit, all three deputy editors under Carter, including Aimee Bell and Dana Brown, are gone.