135-yr-old National Geographic magazine lays off its last 19 staff writers, may go off newsstands

The Straits Times ^ | 6/20/2023 | Keval Singh

[Bon of Babble]

The job cuts are part of cost-cutting measures by the magazine’s parent company, Walt Disney.

[Sertorius]

Yeah, National Geographic got tons of marriage proposals for her at the time. Afghan living is hard, especially for women.

[NewHampshireDuo]

Sometime in the late ‘50s, friends of my parents gave me a 3 ft tall stack of Nat Geos from the years prior. My fav articles included those about Cousteau, the Bathyscaphe, etc.

Ended up subscribing but that went away in the early ‘90s along with my long-standing subscription to Scientific American.

[Sertorius]

I have one signed by Gil Grosvenor!

[LuxAerterna]

National Geographic used to be a wonderful, family-friendly...

Yep. I used to attend Bible studies with a family who kept National Geographic issues displayed in their household. What Christian family would display this garbage? It's another example of Disney spitting in the face of its customers while pandering to child grooming perverts, race grifters and climate cultists.

[SamAdams76]

I was a subscriber for several decades and I still kick myself for getting rid of all those back issues a few years back when I downsized my home. I figured I could always look at the back issues online but now they seem to have them behind a paywall.

Back in the day, that was a magazine I read cover to cover. The photos were always spectacular and even the articles accompanying them were worth reading.

[nomorelurker]

“I was a subscriber for several decades and I still kick myself for getting rid of all those back issues a few years back when I downsized my home. I figured I could always look at the back issues online but now they seem to have them behind a paywall.”

Exact same story for me, except I quit reading it and dropped my subscription when every other article started to be about “climate change” followed by something about the first trans person or some other group to do this or that.

[Honest Nigerian]

That is a shame. I didn’t realize it was in that bad of shape. This is one magazine that deserves to continue to be published.
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I disagree with your second sentence. “deserves”? On what basis do you make your claim?
Economics? Public Interest? Sentimentality (i.e., Emotion)?
There has been lots of great photography and stories over the years. But ....

[Vaduz]

Disney feeling to cost of woke

[Wuli]

I think NatGeo may have made some better decisions for itself the last four years if it had not become part of Disney in 2019.

I think many units (conpanies) of conglomerates are not in fact “saved” by the conglomerate but merely used to bolster the “size” of the conglomerate as if growth in size alone is an improvement. I remember many smaller companies absorbed by Microsoft but went there only to die in a few years.

I once had many years worth of complete sets of Nat Geo, in their binders. Then I was looking at selling them and in the process found you can get whole the years worth of printed Nat Geo magazine, digitized onto CDs/DVDs. I realized that undercut selling my old bound printed versions and tossed them out in the paper recycling collection.

[zeugma]

Same thing happened to Scientific American. I used to love that Magazine, had a subscription for years, and finally ended up cancelling it due to their overt political agenda.

Yup. I had subs to both. They became unreadable.

[NorthWoody]

That’s because she’s HAWT! I was 18 when that issue came out and I remember staring into those eyes far longer than necessary.

[proust]

That darn climate change!

[Sirius Lee]

I think NatGeo may have made some better decisions for itself the last four years if it had not become part of Disney in 2019.

It had become hopelessly leftist and preachy long before Disney. Scientific American has also reached a vomit inducing level of unreadability. The Economist is halfway there.

[hanamizu]

One magazine you never threw away after reading it. My grandfather had stacks of them in his cellar going back to the 20s. Besides the topless native girls, the car ads and the World War II issues kept me occupied for hours.

[M1903A1]

And that article was from nearly six years ago, so she’d be in her early fifties by now. Talk about a hard life.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Bon of Babble.

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[Openurmind]

I can see their challenge, Culture, History, and Geography have been cancelled. They don’t even teach much of it in schools anymore. So no one cares...

[Bonemaker]

It got all climate changey over the years. Before that it was a masterpiece.

[glorgau]

Another feel good “Go Woke, Go Broke” story.

Gotta stop subsidizing the safe place hideaways for these people.

[Bonemaker]

Used to be a lot of wonderful publications, newspapers, etc back when I was growing up and America was still America. I used to read Trout Unlimited but I’ll be damned if even they didn’t turn to shit.