“Our teams, our families and our friends have been affected by the increase in hate crimes against Asians and this is unacceptable,” wrote Lynch in the memo, which was reviewed by The Times.
Ms. McCammond was scrutinized before Condé Nast hired her, and top executives, including Lynch and Anna Wintour, content director and global editorial director at Vogue, were aware of racist tweets from a decade ago, Duncan said in his note in Thursday, and Ms. McCammond recognized them in interviews with the company.
Ms. Wintour discussed the tweets with black Condé Nast leaders before the job offer was made, according to a company executive who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a personal issue. Ms. McCammond considered Condé Nast leaders to be an impressive candidate, the executive said, and they felt that her 2019 apology showed that she had learned from her mistakes.
Although the company was aware of the racist tweets, it was unaware of the homophobic tweets or a photo, also from 2011, which was recently published by a right-wing website showing her in American Indian attire at a Halloween party, the executive said. The verification process did not reveal the additional material because it had been deleted, added the executive.
Condé Nast recorded complaints of racism in its workplace and content last year. In June, amid the Black Lives Matter protests, Ms. Wintour sent a note to the Vogue team, writing that, under her leadership, the magazine had not given enough space for “Editors, writers, photographers, designers and other creators blacks “and recognizing that he published” images or stories that were painful or intolerant “.
Adam Rapoport, the editor-in-chief of another Condé Nast publication, Bon Appétit, resigned in June after a photo of him resurfaced on social media, drawing condemnations from the team for an offensive representation of Puerto Ricans.
In the past two weeks, as complaints grew, Wintour tried to build support for the future publisher of Teen Vogue. Ms. McCammond also attended meetings with Condé Nast staff members and other groups to apologize more and listen to their concerns, including individual conversations with Teen Vogue journalists, according to six people with knowledge of the meetings.