There will be a changing of the guard atop Vanity Fair, one of the flagship publications in the Cond Nast portfolio.

Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Radhika Jones told staff Thursday that she plans to leave the publication in the spring.

Those of you who know me well know that I can be a little restless, once a mission is accomplished. And I have always had a horror of staying too long at the party, Jones wrote employees in an email, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. So Ive made the decision to leave Vanity Fair this spring. It was a difficult decision, because it was a tremendous privilege to lead this team. Jones joined Vanity Fair from The New York Times in Dec. 2017, succeeding its longtime editor Graydon Carter.

You can read Jones memo to staff below.

Hello all,

At the end of every year, I look over the memo I wrote back in 2017 when I was interviewing to be the editor of Vanity Fair, as a way to remember the goals I had and check my progress. Last year, somewhat to my surprise, I realized thatwith your helpI had accomplished virtually all of those goals. Vanity Fair is a thriving modern publication with incisive, lively reporting; a vast and highly engaging social media audience; a studio business with terrific projects under our belt and in the works on FX, Amazon, Netflix, and more; a video powerhouse; and an epic party machine, to which this years Oscar party (my seventh!) was testament. We are fully at home in our worlds.

It was gratifying, but also a little jarring, to feel like I could check off those boxes. And simultaneously I began to feel, more powerfully, the pull of new goals in my life, around family and friends and writing and other ways to make an impact. Those of you who know me well know that I can be a little restless, once a mission is accomplished. And I have always had a horror of staying too long at the party. So Ive made the decision to leave Vanity Fair this spring. It was a difficult decision, because it has been a tremendous privilege to lead this team. Our work has been a beacon. We have published incredible writing, by everyone from Jesmyn Ward to James Pogue. Just last night I went to the Whitney Museum and saw Amy Sheralds painting of Breonna Taylor, hanging prominently in her new show, American Sublime. That piece of art would not exist in the world had we not commissioned it for the cover of our September 2020 issue, and publishing it remains one of the proudest moments of my whole careerand one of many proud moments here at Vanity Fair.

I have loved working with you all, for all the reasons you know. Weve come through a lot of challenges, from Covid on, for which we had no playbook; we wrote our own. I will always be grateful to David Remnick for bringing me in the door, to Anna Wintour and Roger Lynch for their support over the years, and to the Newhouse family for their stewardship of these magazines. I will want to say goodbye and thank each of you individually over the days to come. For now, know that I admire you all, I believe in you, and I will be rooting for you and for Vanity Fair.

Radhika