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National Geographic
National Geographic Magazine March 2017 Cover.jpg

March 2017 embrace of National Geographic

Editor Susan Goldberg[1]
Categories Geography, history, nature, science
Frequency Monthly
Total circulation
(June 2016)		 6.ane 1000000 (global)[ii]
First issue September 22, 1888; 133 years agone  (1888-09-22) [3]
Company National Geographic Guild and
  • NG Media
  • (National Geographic Partners/
  • Disney Publishing Worldwide)
Country United States
Based in Washington, D.C.[four]
Language English and various other languages
Website world wide web.nationalgeographic.com
ISSN 0027-9358
OCLC 643483454

National Geographic (formerly the National Geographic Magazine , sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by the National Geographic Society. Known for its photojournalism, it is one of the virtually widely read magazines of all time.

The mag was founded in 1888 as a scholarly journal, ix months after the establishment of the lodge. In 1905, it began including pictures, a style for which it became well-known. Its kickoff color photos appeared in the 1910s. During the Cold War, the mag committed itself to presenting a balanced view of the physical and human geography of nations beyond the Iron Curtain. In later years, the mag became outspoken on environmental issues. Since 2019, controlling involvement has been held by The Walt Disney Visitor.

Topics of features mostly concern scientific discipline, geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is well known for its distinctive appearance: a thick foursquare-bound glossy format with a yellowish rectangular border. Map supplements from National Geographic Maps are included with subscriptions. It is bachelor in a traditional printed edition and an interactive online edition.

As of 1995[update], the magazine was circulated worldwide in virtually 40 local-language editions and had a global circulation of at least 6.5million per month (downwardly from about 12 million in the late 1980s), including 3.5 1000000 within the U.S.[vi] [vii] Every bit of September 2021[update], its Instagram page has 1911000000 followers, the nigh of any account non belonging to an individual celebrity.[eight] As of 2015[update], the mag had won 25 National Magazine Awards.[9]

History [edit]

Jan 1915 cover of The National Geographic Magazine

The first issue of the National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, 9 months after the Society was founded. It was initially a scholarly journal sent to 165 charter members and currently information technology reaches the hands of 40 meg people each month.[10] Starting with its Jan 1905 publication of several total-page pictures of Tibet in 1900–01, the magazine changed from beingness a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific periodical to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. The June 1985 cover portrait of the presumed to exist 12-year-sometime Afghan daughter Sharbat Gula, shot by photographer Steve McCurry, became ane of the magazine's well-nigh recognizable images.[ commendation needed ]

National Geographic Kids, the children's version of the magazine, was launched in 1975 under the proper name National Geographic Globe.

In the belatedly 1990s, the magazine began publishing The Complete National Geographic, an electronic compendium of every by outcome of the magazine. Information technology was then sued over copyright of the magazine equally a commonage work in Greenberg five. National Geographic and other cases, and temporarily withdrew the availability of the compilation. The mag would prevail in the dispute, and in July 2009, resumed republishing containing all past issues through December 2008. The drove was afterward updated to make more recent issues available, and the archive and electronic edition of the magazine are bachelor online to the magazine'south subscribers.[ citation needed ]

In September 2015, the National Geographic Society moved the magazine to a new partnership, National Geographic Partners, in which 21st Century Trick held a 73% controlling involvement.[11]

From December 2017 until March 2019, Disney acquired 21st Century Play a joke on,[12] including the latter'southward interest in National Geographic Partners.[xiii] NG Media publishing unit was operationally transferred into Disney Publishing Worldwide.[14]

Assistants [edit]

The current editor-in-chief of the magazine is Susan Goldberg.[1] Goldberg is also Editorial Manager for National Geographic Partners, overseeing the print and digital expression of National Geographic's editorial content across its media platforms including National Geographic mag. She is responsible for the news, National Geographic Traveler magazine, National Geographic History magazine, and maps. She is too responsible for all the editorial digital content with the exception of National Geographic Books and Kids. Goldberg reports to Gary Knell, CEO of National Geographic Partners.[ citation needed ]

Editors-in-chief [edit]

The magazine had a single "editor" from 1888 to 1920. From 1920 to 1967, the primary editorship was held by the president of the National Geographic Gild. Since 1967, the magazine has been overseen by its own "editor" and/or "editor-in-principal". The list of editors-in-chief includes three generations of the Grosvenor family between 1903 and 1980.

  • John Hyde: (October 1888 – September 1900; Editor-in-Chief: September 1900 – February 1903)[ citation needed ]
  • Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1875–1966): (Editor-in-Main: Feb 1903 – January 1920; Managing Editor: September 1900 – Feb 1903; Assistant Editor: May 1899 – September 1900)
  • Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor: (1920–1954) (president of the society and editor-in-main at the same time)
  • John Oliver La Gorce (1879–1959): (May 1954 – January 1957) (president of the society at the same time)
  • Melville Bong Grosvenor (1901–1982): (Jan 1957 – August 1967) (president of the social club at the same time) (thereafter editor-in-main to 1977)
  • Frederick Vosburgh (1905–2005): (August 1967 – October 1970)
  • Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (born 1931): (October 1970 – July 1980) (then became president of the guild)
  • Wilbur E. Garrett: (July 1980 – April 1990)
  • William Graves: (April 1990 – Dec 1994)
  • William 50. Allen: (January 1995 – January 2005)
  • Chris Johns: (January 2005 – Apr 2014) (first "editor-in-chief" since MBG)
  • Susan Goldberg: (April 2014 – present)[ane] [15] [xvi]

Articles [edit]

During the Cold State of war, the magazine committed itself to presenting a counterbalanced view of the physical and human geography of nations across the Iron Mantle. The magazine printed manufactures on Berlin, de-occupied Austria, the Soviet Union, and Mainland china that deliberately downplayed politics to focus on civilisation. In its coverage of the Space Race, National Geographic focused on the scientific achievement while largely avoiding reference to the race's connexion to nuclear artillery buildup. In that location were too many manufactures in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s about the individual states and their resources, along with supplementary maps of each state. Many of these articles were written by longtime staff such as Frederick Simpich.[17] In that location were also articles about biology and science topics.[ commendation needed ]

In subsequently years[ when? ], articles became outspoken on bug such as environmental issues, deforestation, chemical pollution, global warming, and endangered species.[ citation needed ] Serial of articles were included focusing on the history and varied uses of specific products such as a unmarried metallic, gem, food crop, or agricultural product, or an archaeological discovery. Occasionally an entire calendar month's issue would be devoted to a single country, by civilization, a natural resource whose hereafter is endangered, or other theme. In recent decades, the National Geographic Society has unveiled other magazines with different focuses. Whereas in the past, the mag featured lengthy expositions, recent issues have shorter articles.[ commendation needed ]

Photography [edit]

Color photograph of the Taj Mahal. Source: The National Geographic Magazine, March 1921

In addition to being well known for articles most scenery, history, and the most distant corners of the earth, the mag has been recognized for its volume-like quality and its standard of photography. Information technology was during the tenure of Gild President Alexander Graham Bong and editor Gilbert H. Grosvenor (GHG) that the significance of illustration was first emphasized, in spite of criticism from some of the Lath of Managers who considered the many illustrations an indicator of an "unscientific" conception of geography. Past 1910, photographs had get the mag's trademark and Grosvenor was constantly on the search for "dynamical pictures" as Graham Bell called them, particularly those that provided a sense of movement in a all the same image. In 1915, GHG began edifice the group of staff photographers and providing them with advanced tools including the latest darkroom.[18]

The magazine began to characteristic some pages of color photography in the early 1930s, when this technology was still in its early development. During the mid-1930s, Luis Marden (1913–2003), a writer and photographer for National Geographic, convinced the magazine to allow its photographers to use the so-chosen "miniature" 35 mm Leica cameras loaded with Kodachrome motion picture over bulkier cameras with heavy glass plates that required the apply of tripods.[nineteen] In 1959, the magazine started publishing small photographs on its covers, later becoming larger photographs. National Geographic photography quickly shifted to digital photography for both its printed magazine and its website. In subsequent years, the cover, while keeping its yellow edge, shed its oak foliage trim and bare table of contents, to allow for a total page photo taken for ane of the month'south manufactures. Issues of National Geographic are often kept by subscribers for years and re-sold at thrift stores equally collectibles. The standard for photography has remained high over the subsequent decades and the magazine is all the same illustrated with some of the highest-quality photojournalism in the world.[twenty] In 2006, National Geographic began an international photography competition, with over eighteen countries participating.[21]

In bourgeois Muslim countries similar Iran and Malaysia, photographs featuring topless or scantily clad members of primitive tribal societies are often blacked out; buyers and subscribers often complain that this exercise decreases the artistic value of the photographs for which National Geographic is known.[ citation needed ]

Gallery [edit]

  • Traditional butter making in Palestine (National Geographic Mag March 1914)

  • Spanish Gypsy (National Geographic Mag March 1917)

  • Kathmandu Market (National Geographic Magazine October 1920)

Map supplements [edit]

Supplementing the manufactures, the magazine sometimes provides maps of the regions visited.[ commendation needed ]

National Geographic Maps (originally the Cartographic Segmentation) became a division of the National Geographic Society in 1915. The first supplement map, which appeared in the May 1918 issue of the magazine, titled The Western Theatre of War, served every bit a reference for overseas military personnel and soldiers' families akin.[22] On some occasions, the Society's map archives have been used by the United States government in instances where its own cartographic resources were express.[23] President Franklin D. Roosevelt'south White House map room was filled with National Geographic maps. A National Geographic map of Europe is featured in the displays of the Winston Churchill museum in London showing Churchill'southward markings at the Yalta Briefing where the Allied leaders divided mail-state of war Europe.[ citation needed ]

In 2001, National Geographic released an 8-CD-ROM gear up containing all its maps from 1888 to December 2000. Printed versions are also available from the National Geographic website.[24]

Language editions [edit]

First Ukrainian National Geographic magazine presentation

National Geographic English editions collection

In Apr 1995, National Geographic began publishing in Japanese, its first local language edition.[25] The mag is currently published in 30 local editions around the world.[26]

Language Website Editor-in-chief First upshot
English (United states of america) ngm.com Susan Goldberg October 1888
Arabic (United Arab Emirates) ngalarabiya.com Alsaad Omar Almenhaly October 2010
Bulgarian nationalgeographic.bg Krassimir Drumev November 2005
Chinese (Chinese mainland) nationalgeographic.com.cn Tianrang Mai July 2007
Chinese (Taiwan) ngtaiwan.com Yungshih Lee January 2001
Croatian nationalgeographic.com.hr Hrvoje Prćić November 2003
Czech (Czech republic/Slovakia) national-geographic.cz Tomáš Tureček October 2002
Dutch (Netherlands/Belgium) nationalgeographic.nl Arno Kantelberg October 2000
English (India) nat-geo.in Lakshmi Sankaran
Estonian nationalgeographic.ee Erkki Peetsalu October 2011
French nationalgeographic.fr Gabriel Joseph-Dezaize October 1999
Georgian nationalgeographic.ge Natia Khuluzauri October 2012
German nationalgeographic.de Werner Siefer October 1999
Hungarian ng.hu Tamás Vitray March 2003
Hebrew nationalgeographic.co.il Idit Elnatan June 1998
Indonesian nationalgeographic.co.id Didi Kaspi Kasim Apr 2005
Italian nationalgeographic.it Marco Cattaneo February 1998
Japanese nationalgeographic.jp Shigeo Otsuka April 1995
Kazakh nationalgeographic.kz Yerkin Zhakipov Feb 2016
Korean (South Korea) nationalgeographic.co.kr Junemo Kim January 2000
Lithuanian nationalgeographic.lt Frederikas Jansonas October 2009
Shine nationalgeographic.pl Agnieszka Franus Oct 1999
Portuguese (Portugal) nationalgeographic.pt Gonçalo Pereira April 2001
Russian nat-geo.ru Andrei Palamarchuk October 2003
Serbian nationalgeographic.rs Igor Rill November 2006
Slovenian nationalgeographic.si Marija Javornik Apr 2006
Spanish (Latin America) ngenespanol.com Claudia Muzzi Turullols Nov 1997
Spanish (Spain) nationalgeographic.com.es Ismael Nafría October 1997
Thai ngthai.com Kowit Phadungruangkij August 2001
Turkish nationalgeographic.com.tr Nesibe Bat May 2001

[ commendation needed ]

The following local-language editions have been discontinued:

Linguistic communication Website First consequence Last issue Number of issues
Mongolian nationalgeographic.mn October 2012 June 2014 21
Greek nationalgeographic.gr October 1998 December 2014 194
Ukrainian April 2013 January 2015 57
Azerbaijani cluster nationalgeographic.az September 2014 December 2015 16
Latvian nationalgeographic.lv October 2012 March 2016 42
Farsi (Iran) world wide web.ngmfarsi.com October 2012 September 2018 69
Portuguese (Brazil) nationalgeographicbrasil.com May 2000 November 2019 235
Danish natgeo.dk September 2000 December 2020 263
Norwegian natgeo.no September 2000 December 2020 263
Swedish natgeo.se September 2000 December 2020 263
Finnish natgeo.fi January 2001 December 2020 260
Romanaian[27] natgeo.ro May 2003 Dec 2021 224

[ citation needed ]

In clan with Trends Publications in Beijing and IDG Asia, National Geographic has been authorized for "copyright cooperation" in China to publish the yellow-border magazine, which launched with the July 2007 result of the mag with an consequence in Beijing on July ten, 2007, and another event on December 6, 2007, in Beijing also celebrating the 29th ceremony of normalization of U.Southward.–Communist china relations featuring former President Jimmy Carter. The mainland Communist china version is one of the two local-language editions that bump the National Geographic logo off its header in favor of a local-language logo; the other ane is the Farsi version published under the name Gita Nama.[ citation needed ]

Worldwide editions are sold on newsstands in improver to regular subscriptions. In several countries, such as Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Turkey and Ukraine National Geographic paved the fashion for a subscription model in addition to traditional newsstand sales.[ citation needed ]In the United States, newsstand sales began in 1998; previously, membership in the National Geographic Gild was the only way to receive the magazine.[ commendation needed ]

Awards [edit]

On May 1, 2008, National Geographic won 3 National Magazine Awards—an honor solely for its written content—in the reporting category for an article by Peter Hessler on the Chinese economic system; an award in the photojournalism category for work by John Stanmeyer on malaria in the Tertiary Earth; and a prestigious honour for general excellence.[28]

Betwixt 1980 and 2011 the magazine has won a full of 24 National Mag Awards.[29]

In May 2006, 2007, and 2011 National Geographic mag won the American Society of Magazine Editors' General Excellence Award in the over two meg circulation category. In 2010, National Geographic Mag received the summit ASME awards for photojournalism and essay. In 2011, National Geographic Magazine received the top-award from ASME—the Magazine of the Yr Award.

In April 2014, National Geographic received the National Magazine Laurels ("Ellie") for best tablet edition for its multimedia presentation of Robert Draper's story "The Final Chase," about the last days of a tornado researcher who was killed in the line of duty.[thirty]

In February 2017, National Geographic received the National Magazine Award ("Ellie") for best website.[31] National Geographic won the 2020 Webby Award for News & Magazines in the category Apps, Mobile & Voice.[32] National Geographic won the 2020 Webby Accolade and Webby People'due south Phonation Accolade for Magazine in the category Web.[32]

Controversies [edit]

On the magazine's February 1982 encompass, the pyramids of Giza were contradistinct, resulting in the first major scandal of the digital photography age and contributing to photography's "waning brownie".[33]

The cover of the Oct 1988 issue featured a photo of a big ivory male person portrait whose authenticity, particularly the alleged Ice Historic period provenance, has been questioned.[34]

In 1999, the magazine was embroiled in the Archaeoraptor scandal, in which it purported to take a fossil linking birds to dinosaurs. The fossil was a forgery.[ citation needed ]

In 2010, the magazine's Your Shot competition was awarded to William Lascelles for a photo presented every bit a portrait of a dog with fighter jets flight over its shoulder. Lascelles had, in reality, created the image using photograph editing software.[35]

In March 2018, the editor of National Geographic, Susan Goldberg, said that historically the magazine's coverage of people around the globe had been racist. Goldberg stated that the magazine ignored non-white Americans and showed dissimilar groups as exotic, thereby promoting racial clichés.[36]

Encounter also [edit]

  • Asian Geographic
  • Australian Geographic
  • Canadian Geographic and Géographica in Canada
  • Chinese National Geography (founded in 1949)
  • Chris Johns (photographer), staff photographer and later, editor-in-chief (2005–2014) of the mag
  • GEO, Deutschland
  • Joel Sartore staff photographer, head of The Photo Ark project
  • John Patric, noted writer for National Geographic during the 1930s and 1940s
  • National Geographic Kids
  • National Geographic Traveler
  • The Photo Ark
  • Regal Geographical Society
  • Vokrug sveta (Russian: Around the Globe)

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Further reading [edit]

  • Robert Thou. Poole, Explorers Business firm: National Geographic and the World it Made, 2004; reprint, Penguin Printing, 2006, ISBN 978-0-fourteen-303593-0
  • Stephanie Fifty. Hawkins, American Iconographic: "National Geographic," Global Culture, and the Visual Imagination, University of Virginia Printing, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8139-2966-eight, 264 pages. A scholarly study of the magazine's rise as a cultural institution that uses the letters of its founders and its readers; argues that National Geographic encouraged readers to question Western values and place with others.
  • Moseley, W.K. 2005. "Reflecting on National Geographic Magazine and Academic Geography: The September 2005 Special Issue on Africa" African Geographical Review. 24: 93–100.

External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • All the magazine'due south covers published since 1888 until the year 2000
  • Archived National Geographic magazines on the Internet Archive

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