National Geographic has laid off all its workers writers, leaving the venerable, award-winning journal to be pieced collectively by editors and freelancers.
In all, 19 editorial staffers have been reduce, together with the small audio division on the journal. They had been notified in April that the ax would fall, The Washington Post reported. The layoffs are the most recent in a slew of cuts at tech and media publications this yr.
The writers themselves tweeted out the information, specializing in the good run they’d had.
“My new National Geographic just arrived, which includes my latest feature — my 16th, and my last as a senior writer,” wrote Craig Welch, whose award-winning work has graced many a canopy and make clear pressing environmental points. “NatGeo is laying off all of its staff writers. I’ve been so lucky. I got to work (with) incredible journalists and tell important, global stories. It’s been an honor.”
“National Geographic is laying off its staff writers, including me,” he wrote on Twitter. “It’s been a wonderful five years — an honor and a joy. Very proud of the work that my colleagues and I have done here.”
Owned since 2019 by the Walt Disney Co., the 135-year-old chronicler of the pure world has seen a slew of job reductions over the previous a number of years, together with an unprecedented layoff of six prime editors final September, the Post reported.
Founded by the National Geographic Society (which stays a minority accomplice) in 1888, the journal was offered to twenty first Century Fox in 2015. Disney snagged a majority stake when it purchased the Rupert Murdoch-controlled twenty first Century Fox for $71 billion in 2019, per the Post. Before the Fox buy, the journal’s father or mother firm reduce 200 workers, or 9% of its workers, through layoffs and buyouts.
The collectible journal, chock filled with articles and images that took months to analysis and put together, had 12 million U.S. subscribers in its heyday within the Nineteen Eighties and one other few million extra world wide, the Post famous. At the top of 2022 it had much less fewer than 2 million subscribers within the U.S.
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