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Medium was created by Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone in 2012, with the mission of helping good writing "find the right audience." After launch, the platform was initially invite-only to reinforce that Medium is a place for quality scribes and has received praise for its clean design and easy-to-use interface. Since then, the platform has opened up to anyone who wants to publish on it, and also pays for about 5% of its content from contributors. Medium exists in a place between straight-up blogging and being an online magazine. Hunter Walk deduced it's for the internet's 9%, those who want to write but don't want to maintain a blog or website. On this week's Mediatwits podcast, we are discussing Medium, how it’s attracted quality content, and the affinity many writers have for using it. We're also discussing where Medium fits into the media landscape, and if it will continue to evolve as more of a publisher than platform, with its own editorial flavor. This week out special guests are Kate Lee from Medium, Rachel Sklar from The Li.st who runs TheLi.st@Medium collection, Felix Salmon from Fusion. and host Mark Glaser.