McCammond started her career as a
freelance political writer for the women's magazine
Cosmopolitan and later left to become a
news editor at women's online news magazine
Bustle. She joined the website
Axios in 2017. as well as leaked presidential schedules revealing that 60% of
Donald Trump's days were devoted to "executive time" while he was president. In November 2019, McCammond accused former
NBA star and
TNT commentator
Charles Barkley of threatening her in an Atlanta bar prior to the
2020 Democratic primary debate in
Atlanta, Georgia. McCammond reported that, after she commented to Barkley and someone who had joined their conversation that a Barkley remark was contrary to what he had said to her outside the third person's presence, he replied, "I don’t hit women, but if I did I would hit you." Although McCammond never revealed any threat Barkley had made to her, he later issued a public apology for his remark, which was an "attempted joke that was not funny at all." McCammond replied on Twitter without saying she accepted or appreciated the apology, implying that she equated Barkley's comment to actually being "hit or threatened. . . ," and stating her opinion that the remark was "not a joke. . ." and that it was a product of what she called "the culture of misogyny. . . ." McCammond received further media attention related to her relationship with
TJ Ducklo, a member of the Biden 2020 campaign, while she covered the campaign. Ducklo,
White House deputy press secretary under President
Biden, resigned for harassing female
Politico reporter
Tara Palmeri. Ducklo reportedly made "derogatory and misogynistic comments" toward Palmeri during a phone call and accused her of being "jealous" of his relationship with McCammond. The couple publicly announced their relationship on February 8, 2021. On February 12, Ducklo was suspended without pay and apologized. Under pressure from the
Vanity Fair article that reported the matter, Ducklo resigned the next day from his White House position. In March 2021, McCammond was selected as editor in chief of Conde Nast's
Teen Vogue. After the appointment, a series of
racist, bigoted and
homophobic tweets that McCammond posted a decade earlier resurfaced. She apologized to the staff of
Teen Vogue. Several media makers of Asian descent called for McCammond's removal, citing racism against Asians in the U.S. fashion industry and a rise in anti-Asian violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Former
Teen Vogue editor
Elaine Welteroth called the tweets and the feelings behind them "racist and abhorrent and indefensible." More than twenty members of the staff voiced concern internally and to the press. and McCammond resigned from the position prior to starting. McCammond rejoined Axios in July 2021 serving as a political reporter. In July 2024, she faced criticism for an Instagram post about her ex-boyfriend Ducklo, "my toxic ex who works for the Biden campaign and has to play cleanup after that disastrous debate." Soon after, she announced her departure from the
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