Teen Vogue editor resigns amid uproar over offensive tweets from college days

Alexi McCammond, who was slated to start as top editor of Conde Nast’s Teen Vogue next week, has resigned amid a firestorm of protests over racist and homophobic comments she made on social media during her college days.

The 27-year-old McCammond was seen as a rising star who covered Joe Biden’s presidential campaign last year for Axios. In 2019, the National Association of Black Journalists named her emerging journalist of the year.

But shortly after Conde Nast announced her hiring to helm its flagship teen magazine, deleted tweets from her...