Condé Nast shuts SELF, closes Glamour editions, and restructures tech division

Condé Nast is shutting SELF and folding its health and wellness coverage into Allure and Glamour, a sharp sign of how hard it has become for legacy magazine brands to survive as digital audiences keep migrating to platforms and bigger, bundled franchises. Roger Lynch told staffers that SELF could not continue “in its current form as a digital publication,” ending a 47-year run for a title that launched in 1979 as Condé Nast’s first new publication in 40 years.

The company is also winding down Glamour’s publishing operations in Germany, Spain and Mexico, while the brand will continue under license in Brazil, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, South Africa and soon Australia. Samantha Barry, Glamour’s editor in chief and global editorial director, said the same day that she is stepping down after eight years, linking her departure to changes in the title’s business model and Condé Nast’s global structure.

The cuts land with particular force because SELF had already lost its print edition in 2017, joining a long retreat from the economics that once supported standalone editorial voices. Glamour ended its regular print cycle in 2018, and Allure shut its print edition in 2022, leaving fewer magazine titles with the scale to support independent health, beauty and lifestyle coverage on their own. Condé Nast said SELF “has played an important role in shaping conversations around health and wellness,” but those conversations are now being absorbed into larger brands with broader reach and more commercial runway.

The restructuring also fits a wider reset inside Condé Nast’s portfolio. Pitchfork was folded into GQ in 2024, and Them was sold to Equalpride in February 2026, part of a steady consolidation of titles into fewer operating centers. At the same time, the company said its technology division will be restructured as it responds to the rapid advancement of AI and the need to build products faster, a reminder that the pressure is not only editorial but operational.

For Condé Nast, the message is clear: the era of maintaining many separate niche titles has given way to a model built around fewer, larger brands that can be repackaged across platforms, licenses and product lines. SELF’s closure shows how much room has narrowed for a magazine to stand alone.