2020 By The Numbers

The top stories, growth, and earnings over this past year

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Dec 18, 2020

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As the year comes to a close, we thought it’d be a good opportunity to look back on 2020 by the numbers. Amid the uncertainty and challenges this year, your writing has helped provide clarity. As always, thanks for publishing with Medium.

In the Partner Program in 2020, there was 106% growth, 65,187 writers published their first story, and $11M in total earnings

The top five stories of 2020 (so far) are:

  1. Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now,” by Tomas Pueyo
  2. Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting*,” by Julio Vincent Gambuto
  3. A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 — and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged,” by Thomas Smith
  4. Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance,” by Tomas Pueyo
  5. 103 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice,” by Corinne Shutack

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