BLACK EXCELLENCE: LINDSAY PEOPLES WAGNER, 30, NAMED EDITOR IN CHIEF OF THE POPULAR NEW YORK MAGAZINE STYLE SITE ‘THE CUT’

I know it’s hard to celebrate wins these days, but we have to keep spreading positive energy and news in 2021. This story from Katie Robinson of the New York Times brought a smile to my face. Lindsay Peoples Wagner is an awesome, trailblazing, Black woman. The news of her leaving Teen Vouge and rejoining The Cut as their new editor in chief was some of the best news of the early year. Here is part of Robinson’s article from the New York Times:

The Cut, the New York Magazine style and culture website with a devoted following, named Lindsay Peoples Wagner as its new editor in chief on Monday.

Ms. Peoples Wagner, 30, will rejoin the publication after a two-year stint as the top editor of Teen Vogue, where she was the youngest editor in chief of a Condé Nast magazine and one of the few Black journalists to have led one of the company’s publications. She was previously a fashion market editor for The Cut, which started out as a fashion blog on the New York Magazine website and became a stand-alone site in 2012.

One of Ms. Peoples Wagner’s last projects for The Cut before she left for Teen Vogue was an examination of being Black in the fashion industry, an article for which she interviewed more than 100 people of color. She said inclusivity would be her number-one priority on her return to the publication. (Ms. Peoples Wagner is also a co-founder of the Black in Fashion Council, which represents people of color in the industry.)

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