National Geographic Lays Off Remaining Writers; Disney-Owned Title Will Survive On Freelancers
The famed National Geographic magazine has become the latest victim of those painful Disney cuts: the remaining writers of the already picked-over publication were laid off Wednesday.
Roughly 19 editorial staffers were notified in April that the job cuts were coming, reported The Washington Post. Freelancers will end up picking up the slack at the magazine, which is still the most read periodical in America.
This is the fourth round of layoffs since ownership of the title changed in 2015. Disney took over in 2019 after the Fox deal; the National Geographic Society remains a minority partner.
Several writers announced their sad departure via Twitter.
National Geographic was created in 1888 and began including pictures in 1905. It reached 1 million subscribers by the 1930s.
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