Medium
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| May 1 2024 | Medium implemented a policy banning AI-generated content from participating in the Partner Program paywall and receiving monetary payouts. |
| May 31 2023 | Roskomnadzor (Russian government censorship agency) blocked Medium website and all its subdomains in the Russian Federation, preventing Russian users from accessing the platform. |
| 2022 | Medium was made available again in Egypt after being previously blocked, restoring access to the platform for Egyptian users. |
| August 11 2022 | CEO Tony Stubblebine announced a layoff of 29 staff members. |
| July 20 2022 | Tony Stubblebine, formerly CEO of Coach.me, took over as Medium's new CEO. |
| July 12 2022 | Ev Williams stepped down as CEO and transitioned to chairman of the board. |
| November 2021 | Medium acquired two companies: Projector (a browser-based graphic design tool) and Knowable (an audio-based learning platform). |
| March 2021 | Medium announces a strategic shift in its publishing approach, focusing on reducing its own publications and increasing support for independent writers. |
| February 11 2021 | Medium employees requested voluntary union recognition through CODE-CWA, with 70% of eligible employees signing union cards. |
| January 2021 | Medium acquired Glose, a social-based ebook company. |
| 2020 | Medium launched Momentum, a publication focusing on anti-racism and civil rights. |
| December 2020 | Medium was reported to be blocked by some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Vietnam, indicating government censorship of the platform. |
| April 21 2020 | The block on Medium by the Albanian Audiovisual Media Authority was lifted, restoring website access in Albania. |
| April 19 2020 | The Albanian Audiovisual Media Authority implemented a block on the Medium website, restricting access in Albania from this date. |
| 2019 | A Nieman Lab article described Medium as having undergone numerous strategic pivots during its first seven years of operation, characterized as an ongoing experiment in internet publishing. |
| 2019 | Medium launched seven new publications: GEN (politics, power, and culture), OneZero (tech and science), Marker (business), Elemental (health and wellness), Focus (productivity), Zora (women of color), and Level (men of color). |
| 2019 | Medium acquired Bay Area website The Bold Italic. |
| August 2017 | The Ringer left Medium and moved to Vox Media. |
| August 2017 | Medium replaced their Recommend button with a new 'clap' feature, where readers can click multiple times to indicate their level of enjoyment for an article. The platform also announced that author payments would be weighted based on the number of 'claps' received. |
| March 2017 | Medium launched a membership program priced at $5 per month, offering access to in-depth content with a new payment model for authors. |
| January 2017 | Medium cut its staff by 50 employees and closed offices in New York and Washington, D.C., shifting away from an advertising-driven model. |
| 2016 | Egyptian government blocked Medium along with over 60 other media websites in a widespread digital censorship effort, restricting access to the platform for Egyptian users. |
| 2016 | Medium abandoned its holacracy corporate governance structure due to challenges in coordinating large-scale projects, dissatisfaction with required record-keeping, and negative public perception of the holacracy model. |
| 2016 | Medium hired the founder of the publication Human Parts, focusing on personal stories. |
| 2016 | Backchannel technology publication was purchased by Condé Nast. |
| 2016 | The platform grew to about 60 million monthly visitors, according to US blog reports. |
| 2016 | Medium acquired Embedly, a rich media embedding platform. The platform published 7.5 million posts and had 60 million monthly readers. |
| April 2016 | Medium was blocked in mainland China following the publication of information from the leaked Panama Papers on the platform, resulting in government censorship. |
| February 23 2016 | Medium announced a deal to host The Ringer, Bill Simmons' new website. |
| January 2016 | Medium received a take-down notice from the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) regarding an article by Sarawak Report about allegations involving 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and Prime Minister Najib Razak. |
| January 27 2016 | Medium's entire content was made unavailable to Internet users in Malaysia after the site refused to remove the contested article without a court order. |
| 2015 | Medium reached approximately 25 million total users during this year. |
| July 2015 | Sarawak Report began hosting its articles on Medium after its own website was blocked by the Malaysian government. |
| May 2015 | Medium made significant cuts to its editorial budget, resulting in layoffs across multiple publications hosted on the platform. |
| 2014 | Cuepoint, Medium's music publication, was started and edited by Jonathan Shecter. |
| 2013 | Medium faced criticism from writers who were unclear about the platform's purpose and expected offerings. |
| 2013 | Medium acquired science and technology website Matter. |
| April 2013 | Williams reported 30 full-time staff working on the platform, including an open 'Storyteller' role. |
| August 2012 | Evan Williams launches Medium, an online publishing platform designed to allow longer form writing beyond Twitter's character limit. |
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