Medium, the pro-am Web-publishing outfit founded by former Twitter C.E.O. Ev Williams, is bringing on a new editor to oversee its content strategy, and Time magazine has lost another editor as it begins a new chapter under the ownership of Meredith Corporation. Siobhan O’Connor, most recently executive editor at Time, left the newsweekly after nearly four years on January 17, and will begin a new job as Medium’s vice president of editorial on February 5, reporting directly to Williams and based in New York.
Medium—best known as an online community where people (often well-known people like politicians, executives, and journalists) can self-publish op-eds, personal essays, and reportage, potentially attracting a large audience—has gone through various iterations since its founding in 2012. The most recent is a subscription play, to which Medium pivoted last year after an ad-based model proved difficult. Some outlets—The Awl, The Ringer, and Pacific Standard, among others—had even moved their content over to the platform, but subsequently pulled out. (Backchannel, a tech-oriented publication that debuted on Medium in 2014, is now owned by Condé Nast, the parent company of Vanity Fair’s Hive; an array of lesser-known, niche publications still host content exclusively on Medium, which also syndicates articles from big shots like The New York Times and The Economist.)
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