Nationwide Geographic Will Finish Newsstand Gross sales of Journal Subsequent Yr, Give attention to Subscriptions, Digital

NEW YORK (AP) — The acquainted yellow-bordered cowl of the month-to-month Nationwide Geographic will not be on the market on newsstands beginning subsequent yr, a part of cutbacks affecting the venerable journal.

The corporate’s focus is popping to its digital product and it’ll supply particular editions on newsstands, a spokesman mentioned on Thursday. Subscribers will nonetheless get a printed copy every month.

Newsstand gross sales account for a small proportion of the journal’s month-to-month circulation of just under 1.8 million copies, the journal mentioned.

Even {a magazine} that began publishing in 1888 is not proof against monetary headwinds affecting the media. Recognized finest for its colourful pictures from all over the world, the journal was began greater than a century in the past by the Nationwide Geographic Society, which helps science and exploration.

Management of Nationwide 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 problem of the journal simply arrived, that includes his sixteenth and final function as a senior author for the journal.

“NatGeo is shedding all of its employees writers,” he wrote.

The journal mentioned whereas it is correct it not has anybody with the title of “author” anymore, it has individuals who each write and edit. As an alternative, it would flip to non-staffers to writer tales. The modifications occurred as the results of a reorganization in April.

The corporate wouldn’t talk about how many individuals misplaced their jobs.

“Nationwide Geographic will proceed to publish a month-to-month journal that’s devoted to distinctive multi-platform storytelling with cultural affect,” spokesman Chris Albert mentioned. “Staffing modifications won’t change our capability to do that work, however slightly 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 current modifications will negatively affect the journal, or the standard of our storytelling, is solely incorrect,” he mentioned.

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