National Geographic, the 135-year-old imperfect chronicler of the planet and its people, is shrinking to a shell of its former self.
The magazine laid off all its staff writers, eliminated its audio department and will no longer be sold on U.S. newsstands beginning next year, Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi reports.
“The cutback — the latest in a series under owner Walt Disney Co. — involves some 19 editorial staffers in all, who were notified in April that these terminations were coming,” Farhi writes. “Article assignments will henceforth be contracted out to freelancers or pieced together by editors.”
