Pitching Stories to Editors at Teen Vogue
Meet the Cast
This ongoing feature typically looks like a reported SEO-friendly cast breakdown by actor name, published the day a show comes out with short interviews to build out information for our readers. Meet the casts are a deep dive into the characters and actors in a movie or show, and a great chance for lesser-known stars to be spotlighted in Teen Vogue. (See past examples for The Wilds, Resident Evil, and Never Have I Ever.)
Senior Entertainment Editor: P. Claire Dodson, [email protected]
Identity
Teen Vogue’s Identity section is dedicated to covering the business of being us — from providing top-quality information on physical and mental health to essays reflecting on the role race plays in how we’re treated in different spaces. Topics most often covered in the section include mental health, sexual health, reproductive rights, body image, and LGBTQ and racial identity. We’re also interested in timely op-eds reflecting on the role identity plays in current news.
For stories including any sort of health information, all sources should be experts in their field —board-certified doctors, licensed mental health providers, or other credentialed specialists who work directly on the topic you’re reporting on.
Features Director and Identity Editor: Brittney McNamara, [email protected]
Style & Beauty
As Teen Vogue’s flagship vertical, the coverage we do in the style and beauty section is at the forefront of youth expression. We highlight trends, changemakers and entrepreneurs, celebrity style, industry news, and op-eds. Specifically, with our beauty coverage, we provide service content through product reviews and investigative reporting of popular brands. We’re interested in timely retrospective features unpacking fashion history and beauty staples. As a conscious publication, we also cover how climate change has been accelerated by fast fashion and uplift ethical companies that prioritize workers’ rights and low-carbon emissions.
For stories including any type of trends, all sources should be experts in their field and quantitative data should come from credible sources.
Senior Fashion & Beauty Editor: Karissa Mitchell, [email protected]
Fashion and Beauty Associate Editor: Donya Momenian, [email protected]
Commerce Editor: Shauna Beni, [email protected]
Politics
The main coverage topics in the politics vertical are social justice, U.S. politics and history, and education. Our stories typically run between 750 words for quicker op-eds to up to 1,800 for more in-depth reported or research-based pieces. We run reported stories on how topics like climate change, the education system, the economy, and immigration are affecting young people; news explainers; lots of op-eds; occasional Q&As; and historical pieces/profiles that are relevant or interesting to a young audience for our Overlooked history series. A youth angle is always preferred but not necessarily required. Our audience also lives all over the United States, so a more national angle to a local story tends to work better.
Politics Director: Allegra Kirkland, [email protected]
Longform Features
Teen Vogue occasionally publishes long-form features on topics that specifically impact our young audience. These may be profiles of important or popular figures, long looks into cultural phenomena, or investigations. We’ve investigated at length the role egg donation plays on college campuses, the impact of the “troubled teen” industry, abortion access before and after Roe v. Wade, and more.
