Introducing our new strategy: The Startup is turning the page. This mini-guide explains everything you need to know to join our roster of contributors.
By Caitlin Raux Gunther
I’m excited to take on the role of Editor in Chief of The Startup, Medium’s largest publication (680K+ followers). Our tagline, “Build Something Awesome,” gets to the heart of our mission: to help readers get smarter at building their things; and to offer writers a platform to share their stories — of work, inspiration, and creativity.
This year in Paris, after the mandatory quarantine was lifted, one of the first things I did was visit the Centre Pompidou, Paris’s modern art museum. The featured exhibition was a tribute to late artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, whom I…
A mini-guide to formatting your writing
Formatting tricks will never cover up poor writing. But poor formatting can ruin the reading experience no matter how good the writing is.
We’ve brought together 16 formatting tips to up your Medium game.
Formatting the above-the-fold section: titles, subtitles, hero image.
1. Couple your “title” with a “subtitle”
In the most cluttered marketplace in history, grabbing the attention of your readers begins even before they land on your story — think of platforms where people discover your post in the first place.
On social media newsfeeds or search engine result pages, your stories will appear only as a tiny preview: title, subtitle, and a thumbnail image.
And your subtitle, together with your main title…
The four numbers you see in the images above:
$5,619.43
$7,006.40
$718.06
$5,016.55
That’s how much some of our writers earned per month from publishing their articles on Medium.
In a world where people exploit freelancers to ghostwrite a 1000-word article for as little as $5, making a living from writing isn’t easy.
And Medium might be onto building the first ever platform where writers can finally blog and get paid by doing what they love.
Let’s take a realistic look at how much Medium’s Partner Program pays writers
We publish dozens of writers on our The Startup publication every month. While the screenshots above present a promising overview, we also know that…
Pubs that actually accept submissions and publish regularly
There are a few useful websites that rank Medium’s leading publications.
Ranking publications is great but many of those pubs now remain inactive as they no longer accept submissions from writers.
We wanted to bring together a continuously updated list of Medium’s most-followed and active publications that also accept submissions from new writers.
We’ll be revising this list every month to make sure it is up to date. A few highlights on what has been happening on top of that list recently:
- Matter (1,035,196 followers) remains inactive since December 12, 2016.
- FreeCodeCamp (583,111 followers) left Medium.
- The Mission (526,570 followers)…
The Startup
Editors of The Startup (https://medium.com/swlh) + Curious (https://medium.com/curious) + Blank Page (https://medium.com/blankpage)
