National Geographic, which has 135 years of history, fired all its reporters

National Geographic, a 135-year-old U.S. magazine, notified all its reporters of their dismissal. At one time, the number of subscribers in the United States reached 12 million, but it did not overcome the trend of the era of the decline of print media.According to the Washington Post (WP) on the 28th (local time), Walt Disney, which owns National Geographic, fired all 19 reporters who remained after restructuring last year. I will leave the articles I write to a freelance journalists.This is not the first time the National Geographic workforce has been reduced. This is the fourth time since the media was acquired by 21st Century Fox in 2015. Disney, the current owner, fired six editorial reporters in September last year in an unusual reorganization of its National Geographic editorial division.Craig Welch, a senior National Geographic reporter, posted a photo of the cover of the July issue on Twitter and wrote, “The last work I participated as a senior reporter has just arrived,” adding, “It was an honor to tell the world’s important story with great reporters.”National Geographic is well known to invest months on the spot to pick up a high-quality photo. The fired reporters said the company also reduced the contents of the photo contract. Earlier, National Geographic announced that it would also stop selling stands from next year to reduce costs.
“National Geographic’s photos and articles are the product of months of research and coverage,” WP said. “National Geographic remained a content that went through the ‘touch of craftsmen’ in the digital media world that changes at light speed, but in the end, it is going downhill like an endangered species.”National Geographic, well known for its yellow-rimmed cover, started as an academic journal published by the National Geographic Association, founded in 1888 by 33 scientists, including Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the phone. Since then, it has been transformed into a comprehensive cultural magazine dealing with various topics such as space, science, history, and animals, and has been nicknamed the “Diary of the Earth.”By the end of the 1980s, considered the heyday of publications, the number of subscribers in the United States reached 12 million. However, as of the end of last year, the number of subscribers was slightly less than 1.8 million.