NowThis editor Versha Sharma to take over at Teen Vogue

May 11, 2021 - By George Shafe

NEW YORK – Teen Vogue has selected Versha Sharma, a prime editor at NowThis, to replace Alexi McCammond as editor in main immediately after a swirl of controversy in excess of McCammond’s past anti-Asian and homophobic tweets.

Sharma requires above Could 24 at the digital-only publication immediately after McCammond and the Conde Nast title parted ways prior to her appointment took impact.

“I am unbelievably fired up and grateful for this great option,” the 34-year-old Sharma tweeted of Monday’s announcement.

Anna Wintour, the international editorial director of Vogue and main information officer for Conde Nast, stated in a statement that Sharma is a “natural leader” with a “global standpoint and deep comprehension of community trends and issues — from politics and activism to culture and style.”

Sharma was named managing editor of NowThis, a digital information web page, in 2015. In 2012, she covered the U.S. presidential election for MSNBC.com. She is the recipient of an Edward R. Murrow award with the NowThis Studies group for a brief documentary about the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, and she’s on the board of administrators of the On the web Information Association.

The daughter of Indian immigrants, Sharma grew up in Louisiana and lives in New York.

McCammond, who is Black, was tapped in March at age 27 as the incoming editor in main to swap Lindsay Peoples Wagner, but derogatory tweets from when she was a teen and college or university student in 2011 brought about a backlash right after the appointment was introduced.

Phone calls for the magazine to change McCammond mounted swiftly, with additional than 20 Teenager Vogue workers members writing management in support of audience and other folks alarmed by the now-deleted tweets. They famous that McCammond’s appointment arrived at a time of “historically large anti-Asian violence and amid the ongoing struggles of the LGBTQ local community.”