Journo star falls in & out of Vogue

Quits teen mag amid tweet furor

Alexi McCammond, who was slated to start as top editor of Teen Vogue next week, has resigned amid protests over racist tweets she made as a teenager.

McCammond, 27, was a rising star who covered President Biden’s campaign last year for Axios. In 2019, the National Association of Black Journalists named her emerging journalist of the year.

But shortly after Condé Nast announced that she would be helming one of its top magazines, deleted tweets she posted more than a decade ago resurfaced.

Earlier this month, more than 20 Teen Vogue staffers circulated a letter to Condé Nast Chief Content Officer Anna Wintour and CEO Roger Lynch registering their dismay.

“My past tweets have overshadowed the work I’ve done to highlight the people and issues that I care about . . . and so Condé Nast and I have decided to part ways,” McCammond wrote on Thursday.

Among her old tweets was a post in which she said she was Googling to find out how to avoid waking up with “Asian eyes” after a night out partying. In another, she griped about a “stupid Asian” teaching assistant. And in another, she complained of being outdone by an Asian student.

McCammond, who had apologized for the tweets when she deleted them in 2019, issued longer apologies to the staff last week amid a charged climate over anti-Asian bias.

Condé Nast officials said that they knew about the tweets and that executives were satisfied with her apologies.

“Given her previous acknowledgment of these posts and her sincere apologies, in addition to her remarkable work in journalism elevating the voices of marginalized communities, we were looking forward to welcoming her into our community,” Chief People Officer Stan Duncan said in a memo.

But the company misjudged the fury the remarks triggered when they resurfaced on social media.

The Asian American Journalists Association called on Condé Nast to rescind its job offer to her.

In announcing her withdrawal, McCammond again apologized.

“I should not have tweeted what I did and I have taken full responsibility for that,” she wrote.

GONE: Alexi McCammond had been set to join Teen Vogue next week as its editor in chief, but she resigned on Thursday as she and publisher Condé Nast faced outrage over racist and homophobic tweets that she postedmore than 10 years ago.