#Condé Nast video editor Matt Duckor resigns over racial bias complaints

A top Condé Nast video editor has resigned over complaints of racial bias in the workplace — marking the publishing giant’s second high-profile departure in recent days over racial issues.

Matt Duckor, head of Condé Nast Entertainment’s fast-growing lifestyle video programming, stepped down amid allegations that he didn’t feature people of color in Bon Appétit Test Kitchen videos and didn’t pay them as much as white employees — if at all.

Bon Appétit Editor-in-Chief Adam Rapoport stepped down on Monday after an Instagram post of him in brownface surfaced amid a staff uproar over pay disparities.

“diversity is a joke to @matttduckor and leadership @bonapetit and @condenast,” tweeted @noahabamz on June 9. “Matt must step down from his leadership role to ensure BIPOC and the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen are paid for their work and so real diversity can happen at Conde.”

Duckor’s resignation also comes as some old tweets resurfaced that have been criticized as being homophobic. In one, Duckor posted, “Gay men use the gym as a place to socialize and to have secret liaisons in the bathrooms. WORKING OUT IS SO GAY.”

In another post, he tweeted, “Dude singing along with John Mayer while I wait for my sandwich. Gay.”

Brendan Bryant @bd_bryant tweeted that “as a former #Condenast employee (tech side) and member of @bonappetit the biases are not just at BA but at every brand. there are people who are even more responsible, but it starts with leadership at Conde Nast.”

Condé Nast held a virtual town hall on Tuesday to address concerns.

And as Page Six reported Tuesday, even Vogue Editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, the company’s artistic director, issued an apology for “mistakes” made in her 32-year career for not “finding ways to give space to black editors, writers, photographers, designers.”

She also acknowledged publishing images that were “hurtful and intolerant.”

The company had no comment at press time on the latest departure.