The acquainted yellow-bordered cowl of the month-to-month National Geographic will now not be on the market on newsstands beginning subsequent yr, half of cutbacks affecting the venerable journal.
The corporate’s focus is popping to its digital product and it should supply particular editions on newsstands, a spokesman stated on Thursday. Subscribers will nonetheless get a printed copy every month.
Newsstand sales account for a small share of the journal’s month-to-month circulation of slightly below 1.8 million copies, the journal stated.
Even {a magazine} that began publishing in 1888 is not immune to monetary headwinds affecting the media. Identified finest for its colourful pictures from world wide, the journal was began greater than a century in the past by the National Geographic Society, which helps science and exploration.
Management of National Geographic has modified twice up to now decade, first in a sale to twentieth Century Fox earlier than being acquired by the Walt Disney Corp. in 2019. It has been hit by a collection of layoffs.
Craig Welch posted on Twitter on Wednesday that his new challenge of the journal simply arrived, that includes his sixteenth and last characteristic as a senior author for the journal.
“NatGeo is shedding all of its staff writers,” he wrote.
The journal stated whereas it is correct it now not has anybody with the title of “author” anymore, it has individuals who each write and edit. As an alternative, it should flip to non-staffers to writer tales. The adjustments occurred because the consequence of a reorganization in April.
The corporate wouldn’t talk about how many individuals misplaced their jobs.
“National Geographic will proceed to publish a month-to-month journal that’s devoted to distinctive multi-platform storytelling with cultural affect,” spokesman Chris Albert stated. “Staffing adjustments won’t change our skill to do that work, however reasonably give us extra flexibility to inform completely different tales and meet our audiences the place they’re throughout our many platforms.”
“Any insinuation that the latest adjustments will negatively affect the journal, or the standard of our storytelling, is just incorrect,” he stated.
