Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:03 AM 10-04-97 -0400, Fred Ward wrote: >4. You would not want to be at Geographic today. Since 1991 they have >fired half their lifelong employees and hired kids to take their places; >they cut their photographic staff from a high of near 30 down to 2 >staffers (firing the rest); they have recently hired 3 more to give it a >photographic staff of 5 only now; they just announced that all >photographers on contract will see those contracts terminated in June. >Everything will now be done by freelancers without benefits, >retirements, health care, office space, etc. > >Be glad you are where you are. No one left at NGS I know is happy. I haven't looked at a copy of National Geographic in years. Does what you describe about the current state of the inner workings of the magazine correlate with the content of the magazine itself? Dan C.