COMMENT | Can news organisations run without staff writers or journalists?

COMMENT | I’ve been a part of newsroom teams, both as a reporter being assigned stories and editor coming up with editorial strategies and assigning stories.

For the most part, the days are always exciting. Something is always happening somewhere in the country or the rest of the world. If you have a enough big team to cover everything, then you do. If you don’t, you still try. The press is the fourth estate, right?

Recently, quite big news hit the media industry. National Geographic, one of the world’s most iconic publications renowned for its compelling storytelling and, especially, its captivating images, is laying off all of its staff writers.

This brings to question what the future of the publication is going to be like.

One of the first questions is...