Chloe Malle has been chosen by Anna Wintour to become the next Vogue editor-in-chief though the actual job title has also been renamed to "head of editorial content" according to the latest reports.Sign up for the Out Newsletter to keep up with what's new in LGBTQ+ culture and entertainment delivered three times a week straight (well) to your inbox!"Anna Wintour is clear-eyed, determined, and optimistic, but rarely daring," Lauren Sherman writes for Puck News. "Her tenure in the Cond Nast corporate suite has been defined by choosing editorial leaders whose visions would largely fit within hers. And this balance influenced her search for the next editor of American Vogue now called the head of editorial content."Who is Chloe Malle? Chloe Malle at the 2023 Met Gala, celebrating 'Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty' at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.Jamie McCarthy/Getty ImagesMalle, born and raised in New York City, is 39 years old and has worked for Vogue since 2011. She first started as "editor of Vogue.com and the co-host of The Run-Through with Vogue podcast" alongside Chioma Nnadi, Malle's official author page on the publication reads.Malle worked "as an editor in the features department, then as a Contributing Editor" over the years. She eventually "edited the Flash section covering weddings, homes, parties and travel, the Met Gala special issues, and a number of Vogue books" which include Vogue Weddings: Brides, Dresses, Designers and Vogue Living: Country, City, Coast.Of note, Malle herself wrote the recent profile of Lauren Snchez Bezos during her wedding day to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in June 2025. Moreover, she's contributed to other publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Architectural Digest, to name a few.In June 2015, The New York Times wrote a story about "Chloe Franoise Malle, the daughter of Candice Bergen of New York and the late Louis Malle," getting married to Graham McGrath Albert in a reception held in Cahors, France. Malle, who was 29 years old at the time, was referred to by the Times as the then-social editor of Vogue.Sara Moonves and Nicole Phelps were also in the running to become the new editor-in-chief of Vogue.Puck reports that Sara Moonves the editor-in-chief of W magazine and Nicole Phelps who has run verticals like Vogue Runway and Vogue Business were the other two names that Wintour considered before selecting Malle as her official successor.What is Anna Wintour doing next after leaving Vogue? Anna Wintour at the 2025 U.S. Open Tennis Championships in August 2025.Jean Catuffe/GC ImagesThe news of Wintour stepping away from being editor-in-chief at Vogue has largely missed out on a very important detail: In a way, she's not really going anywhere."She is not 'stepping down' (as many headlines have mistakenly said), but instead shifting focus to her two global roles," a Cond Nast representative told the Daily Mail back in June, noting that Wintour is still the global chief content officer and global editorial director of Cond Nast overall. "She will still be at shows, doing Met and Vogue World, etc. I imagine she will also be traveling to other markets more frequently now that she will have a bit more time to do so."In blunt terms, Wintour's choice to leave her lowest-ranking job (of all three positions she's held at Cond Nast) has been described as "God stepping down from being God."Why was the Vogue editor-in-chief role renamed to head of editorial content?Wintour appears to have told everyone in the running to become the new Vogue editor-in-chief that she was searching for a successor who could "transform the brand into a live-action content machine while [Wintour] spent more time abroad mentoring regional editorial leaders who were struggling to attract both advertisers and audiences in their respective markets," Puck News reports. In the end, Malle was seemingly picked for being "practical, reasonable, rational.""Wintour doesn't aim to provoke. She seeks solutions, and Malle is the path of least resistance," Sherman writes in the Puck report. "Wintour is slated to make the announcement as early as Tuesday [September 2]."Are other Cond Nast publications also rebranding editor-in-chief roles? Cond NastRobert Way/ShutterstockYes, this has been the case for quite a few top-ranking individuals at different verticals operating under Cond Nast.For instance, Katie Drummond (who runs WIRED) and Mark Guiducci (who runs Vanity Fair) are both only referred to as global editorial directors of those brands not as editors-in-chief. Meanwhile, Samantha Barry (who runs Glamour), and Amy Astley (who runs Architectural Digest), and Will Welch (who runs GQ) have all added this "global editorial director" label to their existing roles as editors-in-chief.This rebranding hasn't been consistent across the board, however, as Versha Sharma is still editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and Fran Tirado is still editor-in-chief of Them. David Remnick, who runs The New Yorker, is still simply referred to as "editor" as well.