Ex-photo editor of National Geographic magazine accused of sexual harassment

Before our hearts conquered the travel-show and we began to travel with our beloved leaders around the world, sitting in front of a monitor or a TV with a cup of coffee, many read the rereadings of the National Geographic magazine. On the wave of revelations in harassment, Patrick Whittie, one of the leading photographers and editors of the tabloid, was accused of harassment and blackmail.

Patrick Whitti

At the end of last year, the name of the head of the photo department of National Geographic, was added to the list of Shitty Media Men, where the employees of the media company make the names of colleagues seen in excess of authority and harassment. Against Patrick Witti were 20 women colleagues who told reporters Newsweek about the inappropriate behavior of the leader:

"He could afford to hug and kiss a colleague against his will, and if she expressed frankly dissatisfaction, she threatened to be fired and entered into the so-called" black list "of photographers."
Patrick Whittie and colleagues

Photographers Andrea Wise and Emily Richardson said that in 2014 he threatened them by not cooperating with them. Women did not go on the occasion of blackmail and preferred to remain without the support of Whitti, than the humiliated.

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From January 2016 to December 2017, Whitty served as director of the photographic department, previously worked well with the newspapers The New York Times, Time and Wired. Now, according to the photographer himself, his career has been destroyed. Under the pressure of the tabloid leadership, he resigned from his post at "his own will."