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National Geographic Fired All of Its Staff and Will Rely On Freelancers to Provide Trustworthy Content About Science Stuff

If you’re a science nerd living in your mom’s basement, this is your chance.

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We here at National Geographic understand that you, our loyal readers, have relied on us for more than 100 years to provide thoughtful, well-written, and most importantly, trustworthy articles about the natural world.

Unfortunately, our parent company, Walt Disney Co., has determined that we can’t afford to do that anymore.

So we’ve decided to become a blog.

That’s right. Now anybody can write for National Geographic. Did you get at least a C+ in ninth-grade biology? Welcome!

The brain trust at Disney has decided that this is the answer to staunch the bleeding that is quality scientific reportage in a venerated magazine that people used to, and probably still do, collect.

Our mission statement is now:

‘To illuminate and protect the wonder of our world as cheaply as possible’