If you’ve been dreaming of an internship at Vogue, you can bid those dreams farewell. In a pretty surprising move, Condé Nast, one of the nation’s largest magazine publishers and home to Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Glamour, is eliminating the media conglomerates internship programs starting in 2014.
Two interns at W and The New Yorker sued Nast this past summer, claiming they were paid below minimum wage. Although the suit is still pending, WWD speculates this is the reason for the publisher’s decision to nix internships.
The decision brings up a lot of issues and questions. Will other companies follow Nast’s lead? Interns do a lot of lower level work at magazines (like handling samples – a disheartening, time-consuming, but important task), so who’s going to do it now?
Vogue’s decision could have much bigger implications for the industry in the long-term. Many leaders in the fashion industry parlayed their internships into amazing jobs – so, if the internship model disappears, will it be trickier to navigate the system and network? Time will tell…
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