In a statement, Condé Nast said it had compensated its workers fairly, adding, “To suggest that we are paying individuals differently based on race, gender or any other reason simply isn’t true.” This month, the company announced that Sonia Chopra, previously of the food site Eater, would help lead Bon Appétit as its executive editor.
Bon Appétit has helped make Condé Nast a force in digital media, an area in which the company once struggled, largely on the strength of the recipe videos that have become staples in the media diets of millions of culinary-journalism fans. The U.S. arm of Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Wired, among other titles, lost about $100 million last year on about $900 million in revenue.
Ms. Davis will be one of few Black people to lead a Condé Nast publication in the United States. The first was Keija Minor, the editor in chief of Brides from 2012 to 2017. (Last year, facing financial difficulties, Condé Nast sold Brides to Dotdash, a digital company led by Barry Diller.)
Asked about the challenges to come, Ms. Davis said, “I will lead by example and treat people the way I’ve always been treated, which is with respect, and give everyone an opportunity to shine.”
She added that her favorite recent recipe is one by Andy Baraghani, a Bon Appétit senior food editor, for salmon with turmeric and a coconut crisp. But her go-to dish, as a working mother during a pandemic, has been roast chicken.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/business/media/bon-appetit-dawn-davis-editor.html
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