New Delhi, June 29 (Ians) Finding it hard to sustain in the digital era, the 135-year old Walt Disney-owned National Geographic magazine has laid off the last 19 staff writers, the media reported.
The staffers were notified in April of their terminations. The layoffs are the second over the past nine months, and the fourth since a series of ownership changes began in 2015, the Washington Post reported. As part of the cost-cutting measures, the company had removed six top editors in September last year.
The latest cuts also eliminated the magazine’s small audio department, the report said.
“My new National Geographic just arrived, which includes my latest feature — my 16th, and my last as a senior writer,” Craig Welch, senior writer at NatGeo, wrote on Twitter.
“NatGeo is laying off all of its staff writers. I’ve been so lucky. I got to work w/incredible journalists and tell important,...
The staffers were notified in April of their terminations. The layoffs are the second over the past nine months, and the fourth since a series of ownership changes began in 2015, the Washington Post reported. As part of the cost-cutting measures, the company had removed six top editors in September last year.
The latest cuts also eliminated the magazine’s small audio department, the report said.
“My new National Geographic just arrived, which includes my latest feature — my 16th, and my last as a senior writer,” Craig Welch, senior writer at NatGeo, wrote on Twitter.
“NatGeo is laying off all of its staff writers. I’ve been so lucky. I got to work w/incredible journalists and tell important,...
- 6/29/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
The famed National Geographic magazine has become the latest victim of those painful Disney cuts: several writers of the already picked-over publication were laid off Wednesday.
Roughly 19 editorial staffers were notified in April that the job cuts were coming, reported The Washington Post. The newspaper went on to report that freelancers will end up picking up the slack at the magazine, which is still the most read periodical in America.
This is the fourth round of layoffs since ownership of the title changed in 2015. Disney took over in 2019 after the Fox deal; the National Geographic Society remains a minority partner.
A spokesman insisted to Deadline that editors as well as some writers still remain on staff.
“National Geographic will continue to publish a monthly magazine that is dedicated to exceptional multi-platform storytelling with cultural impact,” according to a company statement. “Staffing changes will not change our ability to do this work,...
Roughly 19 editorial staffers were notified in April that the job cuts were coming, reported The Washington Post. The newspaper went on to report that freelancers will end up picking up the slack at the magazine, which is still the most read periodical in America.
This is the fourth round of layoffs since ownership of the title changed in 2015. Disney took over in 2019 after the Fox deal; the National Geographic Society remains a minority partner.
A spokesman insisted to Deadline that editors as well as some writers still remain on staff.
“National Geographic will continue to publish a monthly magazine that is dedicated to exceptional multi-platform storytelling with cultural impact,” according to a company statement. “Staffing changes will not change our ability to do this work,...
- 6/28/2023
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Ambi will introduce racing drama to buyers in Toronto.
Principal photography is now underway in Alabama on the father-son stock car racing film Trading Paint directed by Karzan Kader. The film will shoot through mid-September.
Ambi and Paradox Studios are fully financing and producing the film. Ambi Distribution, the worldwide sales arm of Ambi Group, is handling worldwide sales.
Trading Paint, written by Craig Welch and Gary Gerani, centres on a down and out dirt track racing legend, who is drawn back into the winners circle after his son, an aspiring driver, joins a competitor’s racing team and incites an intense and dangerous competition between father and son.
John Travolta, Toby Sebastian, Michael Madsen, Shania Twain, and Kevin Dunn star in the racing drama.
Producers are Andrea Iervolino, Monika Bacardi, Silvio Muraglia and Alexandra Klim.
Iervolino said: ”It’s well know that dirt track racing is one of the most exciting sports in the world, and it...
Principal photography is now underway in Alabama on the father-son stock car racing film Trading Paint directed by Karzan Kader. The film will shoot through mid-September.
Ambi and Paradox Studios are fully financing and producing the film. Ambi Distribution, the worldwide sales arm of Ambi Group, is handling worldwide sales.
Trading Paint, written by Craig Welch and Gary Gerani, centres on a down and out dirt track racing legend, who is drawn back into the winners circle after his son, an aspiring driver, joins a competitor’s racing team and incites an intense and dangerous competition between father and son.
John Travolta, Toby Sebastian, Michael Madsen, Shania Twain, and Kevin Dunn star in the racing drama.
Producers are Andrea Iervolino, Monika Bacardi, Silvio Muraglia and Alexandra Klim.
Iervolino said: ”It’s well know that dirt track racing is one of the most exciting sports in the world, and it...
- 8/14/2017
- ScreenDaily
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