Disney-owned National Geographic magazine has laid off the last of its staff writers and replaced them with freelancers, according to reports, making it the latest media outlet to slash jobs amid an uncertain economic environment. Following job cuts earlier this year, just 19 members of the editorial department had remained at the publication, according to The Washington…

When I was growing up, one of my favorite magazines to grace our living room coffee table was the National Geographic. When that recognizable, golden-yellow bordered publication arrived, I was lured to look inside. Designed and produced as a slim, tight volume with a rigid edge, these magazines begged to be saved, which my father…

By John Metcalfe From Bay Area News Group San Jose–How special is it that the world’s premiere travel-and-photography outlet puts a macro lens on a new Bay Area park? For its 25 Breathtaking Places and Experiences for 2023, National Geographic includes San Francisco’s Tunnel Tops as one of the top destinations in the world, praising…

Billy Lie has been active in the “Hong Kong Landscape Photography Society” in recent years, and his works have been praised by netizens. Lie is good at portrait and landscape photography. He set foot on the road of photography more than ten years ago, and he is still full of ambition and constantly pursues improvement….

After recharging his batteries for more than two years, Kelvin Yuen, a 25-year-old photographer from Hong Kong, embarked on a trip in July 2022 to photograph the landscapes of Italy, France, and Canada. Photographer Kelvin Yuen, hiking in a mountainous area to photograph the natural beauty of the terrain. (Courtesy of Kelvin Yuen) From midsummer to…

In the hope of impressing a mate, a male roadrunner catches a lizard and displays it proudly before the female. (National Geographic for Disney+/Neil Anderson) TV-PG | 3h 58min | Documentary, Nature | 4 July 2022 (USA) Releasing a limited TV documentary series titled “America the Beautiful” (ATB) on the fourth of July is nothing if not brilliant timing and…

A National Geographic writer falsely said in a new book that Kyle Rittenhouse killed two black men in Wisconsin in 2020. Kara Cooney wrote in “The Good Kings” that Rittenhouse “used his semi-automatic weapon to kill two black men in Kenosha, Wisconsin, while waging a glorious race war on behalf of his inherited white power.”…