Condé Nast cuts Glamour staff as magazine shifts toward shopping tips

Condé Nast’s latest cuts at Glamour showed how far legacy women’s media has drifted from the newsroom model that built it. The brand is losing editorial jobs while being pushed toward shopping tips, social video and affiliate commerce, a shift that leaves fewer people making the service journalism that once defined the magazine.

In April 2026, Condé Nast said Glamour would concentrate on the United States and the United Kingdom, the markets it viewed as its strongest opportunities. The company said the brand would focus on fashion and beauty recommendations and prioritize social, video, commerce and licensing opportunities, while reorganizing the teams that remained in those markets. Condé Nast also said the affected Glamour markets represented a little over 1% of overall revenue and were unprofitable. The company planned to wind down publishing operations in Germany, Spain and Mexico, while licensed editions would continue in Brazil, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, South Africa and soon Australia.

The restructuring landed alongside a broader pullback across the company, including changes to Condé Nast’s technology organization as it cited AI and the need to build products faster. It also came with the shuttering of SELF, underscoring how aggressively Condé Nast was narrowing its portfolio toward the brands and formats it believed could generate the strongest returns.

The union representing workers said the latest round of cuts eliminated 16 members across SELF, Glamour and Condé Nast Entertainment, bringing total losses to 33 over five months. It said most of Glamour’s editorial staff was gone, along with key employees in design, audience development and operations. Samantha Barry stepped down as Glamour’s editor in chief on April 16, 2026, after eight years in the role, saying it was the right time to leave as the brand’s business model evolved. Fashionista reported that eight full-time Glamour staff members were laid off that day, leaving nine employees.

The changes mark another step in Glamour’s long retreat from print. The magazine, founded in 1939, ended its monthly print edition in January 2019, after Condé Nast said it would become online-only and lean more heavily into digital, video and social storytelling. In 2018, Condé Nast said Glamour’s website drew more than 11 million monthly visitors and the title had 2.2 million paid subscribers, numbers that now stand in stark contrast to the much smaller newsroom left behind. Condé Nast has also said its seven largest brands generate 85% of revenue, a figure that helps explain why Glamour is being remade less as a broad editorial franchise than as a commerce channel with a legacy masthead attached.