Washington Post:
The National Geographic Society of Washington will lay off about 180 of its 2,000 employees in a cost-cutting move that follows the sale of its famous magazine and other assets to a company controlled by Rupert Murdoch.
The reduction, the largest in the organization’s 127-year history, appears to affect almost every department of the nonprofit organization, including the magazine, which the society has published since just after its founding in 1888. The reduction also will affect people who work for the National Geographic Channel, the most profitable part of the organization. Several people in the channel’s fact-checking department, for example, were terminated on Tuesday, employees said.
Damn.
I think we all saw this coming from a mile away. It’s a sad day.
That’s awful : Hope they can find a job very soon…
Fact checking in the world of Murdoch? Useless. If this continues, they will lose their non-profit status. Then, watch out!
Welcome to Rupe’s Romper Room… The Global Klown show that is built and run by/for ONE person…Rupe. Well, FU** HIM.. NOBODY needs him and now he’s turned on the planet’s actually, physical history which will be reported (within a year) as as having happened in 6 days, about 5,000 years ago. Mark your calendars…
The last image the globe should experience from RUpe is him sailing off into a beautiful sunset, STRAPPED TO THE MAST of a drifting, captain-less 32’ sail job…. 500 miles south of the Patagonia coast…
They were rendered irrelevant the moment Fox News bought them.
Yeah don’t need no durn ‘fact checking’ now that they’re part of the Fox empire. http://boingboing.net/2015/09/17/tom-the-dancing-bug-national.html