Condé Nast will close its women’s health magazine, Self, after 47 years
TL;DR
Condé Nast will close its women's health magazine, Self, after 47 years due to shifting audience behaviors. Health content will be integrated into other brands like Allure and Glamour.
Key points
- Condé Nast will close Self after 47 years.
- The decision is due to shifting audience behaviors.
- Health content will be integrated into Allure and Glamour.
- Self transitioned to an online-only format in 2017.
- The closure is part of broader operational changes at Condé Nast.
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Condé Nast is planning to shutter Self, its women’s health magazine, after 47 years.
In a memo published on the magazine giant’s website on Thursday, the CEO Roger Lynch explained the decision by saying: “As audience behaviors shift, we have not seen a path for Self to continue in its current form as a digital publication.”
“Going forward, health and wellness content will be integrated into our other brands, including Allure and Glamour,” Lynch said, referring to Condé Nast’s other beauty and wellness titles.
Self, which transitioned to an online-only format in 2017, still reaches more than 20 million people each month. The publication has also earned significant recognition over the years, including a National Magazine award and a Webby’s People’s Voice award.
The closure is part of a wider set of operational changes across the company. Lynch also announced the end of Wired’s Italy edition, noting that while the brand “remains a strong global brand, the Italian edition has not kept pace with growth in our other markets”.
Additionally, Condé Nast will wind down Glamour’s publishing operations in Germany, Spain and Mexico.
“Taken together, Wired in Italy, Self, and the affected Glamour markets represent a little over 1% of our overall revenue. They also remain unprofitable, and continuing to operate them in their current form limits our ability to invest in the ideas and areas that will drive future growth,” Lynch said.
Beyond editorial changes, the company is also restructuring internally to adapt to technological shifts. Lynch said Condé Nast will be making “changes within our technology organization, reflecting the rapid advancement of AI and its impact on our ability to innovate and build products faster”, adding: “Teams will be restructured to be more agile and to work more closely with our brands and customers, reducing barriers to execution.”
The latest moves follow a series of transformations at Condé Nast in recent years. Glamour ended its print edition in 2018, followed by Allure transitioning to a digital-only format in 2022. In 2024, music publication Pitchfork was folded into GQ, the company’s men’s style magazine.
More recently, last November, Vogue – one of Condé Nast’s key revenue drivers – announced it would absorb Teen Vogue to create a more “unified reader experience across titles”.
The media industry has been shrinking steadily over the years. From 2010 to 2017, the media industry lost an average of 7,305 jobs annually, according to data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas published in December 2025. Since 2018, the data says the average of job cuts in the industry has risen to 14,298 a year.
Q&A
Why is Condé Nast closing the Self magazine?
Condé Nast is closing Self because it has not found a viable path for the magazine to continue as a digital publication amid changing audience behaviors.
What will happen to Self's health and wellness content?
Self's health and wellness content will be integrated into other Condé Nast brands, including Allure and Glamour.
How long did Self magazine operate before its closure?
Self magazine operated for 47 years before its planned closure by Condé Nast.
