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

The firm’s focus is popping to its digital product and it'll provide particular editions on newsstands, a spokesman stated 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 slightly below 1.8 million copies, the journal stated.

Even {a magazine} that began publishing in 1888 isn’t proof against monetary headwinds affecting the media. Known finest for its colourful images from all over the world, the journal was began greater than a century in the past by the National Geographic Society, which helps science and exploration.

Control of National 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 challenge of the journal simply arrived, that includes his sixteenth and final characteristic as a senior author for the journal.

“NatGeo is laying off all of its staff writers,” he wrote.

The journal stated whereas it’s correct it not has anybody with the title of “writer” anymore, it has individuals who each write and edit. Instead, it is going to flip to non-staffers to creator tales. The adjustments occurred as the results of a reorganization in April.

The firm wouldn't talk about how many individuals misplaced their jobs.

“National Geographic will continue to publish a monthly magazine that is dedicated to exceptional multi-platform storytelling with cultural impact,” spokesman Chris Albert stated. “Staffing changes will not change our ability to do this work, but rather give us more flexibility to tell different stories and meet our audiences where they are across our many platforms.”

“Any insinuation that the recent changes will negatively impact the magazine, or the quality of our storytelling, is simply incorrect,” he stated.

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