Medium dropped a bombshell again??

Medium’s latest big change: the buyout of the editors for in-house publications. Here's my write-up if you prefer reading:
https://www.zuliewrites.com/blog/what-does-mediums-buyout-of-its-editorial-team-mean-for-indie-writers

CHAPTERS:
Intro: 00:00
Super Quick Summary: 00:43
Table of Contents: 2:34
The Context: 3:17
What will happen to the editors/those pubs: 6:35
The reception: 8:17
My thoughts: 11:52

Ev’s email is… pretty wild.

Weren’t we just here? Didn’t I just make a video about some new earth-shattering Medium update?

For those of you who aren’t in the know, Ev (Medium’s CEO) dropped a pretty big bomb on us, the writers of Medium, and apparently his entire staff as well.

The upshot is that the big publications - OneZero, Forge, Marker, Elemental, Etc, are being bought out. Ev says he’s doing this because they’re too expensive to run. If you’re an editor you have two options. So he’s offering voluntary separation with 5 months paycheck and 6 months healthcare. Or you can stay on to an uncertain job with many changes. Nobody knows what these pubs will look like, not even Ev!

Here’s his email: https://ev.medium.com/medium-editorial-team-update-8679bcb9fe81

It appears that nobody, not even the editorial team at medium, really knew this was happening - just last week, they launched a new publication, Index.

Quick disclaimer: I have no sure knowledge about this. Ev does not confide in me (though if he ever wants to, you know how to find me, Ev ;) ). This is all speculation and what’s freely available on the internet.

There are a LOT of thoughts here. I’m going to split this into 4 parts:

The context
What it means for editors
The reception
My theories and thoughts.

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