''Backchannel'' was an
online magazine
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that published in-depth stories on technology-related news on
Medium.
History
In early 2014,
Ev Williams, founder of
Medium, invited Stephen from ''
Wired
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Arts, entertainment, and media Music
* ''Wired'' (Jeff Beck album), 1976
* ''Wired'' (Hugh Cornwell album), 1993
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'' to start a tech column on Medium, ''Backchannel''.
''Backchannel'' has interviewed many notable figures, such as
Demis Hassabis of
Google DeepMind and
Orrin Hatch
Orrin Grant Hatch (March 22, 1934 – April 23, 2022) was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Utah from 1977 to 2019. Hatch's 42-year Senate tenure made him the longest-serving Republican U.S. senat ...
of the
Republican Party. The journalists who wrote for the site included
Steven Levy
Steven Levy (born 1951) is an American journalist and editor at large for '' Wired'' who has written extensively for publications on computers, technology, cryptography, the internet, cybersecurity, and privacy. He is the author of the 1984 boo ...
,
Andrew Leonard,
Susan P. Crawford,
Virginia Heffernan,
Doug Menuez,
Peter Diamandis, and Jessi Hempel.
In 2016, it was announced that Condé Nast had purchased ''Backchannel'', though no terms of the deal were communicated, and only a transfer of the editorial team was planned.
In September 2017, it was officially announced that ''Backchannel'' would become a weekly magazine on Wired.com. It was also explained that ''Backchannel'' had migrated away from Medium because of the platform's shifting business model. In January 2018, publications definitely stopped on Medium.
Backchannel.com now redirects to ''Wired''
's section ''The Big story''.
''Backchannel'' was the last "major sponsored publications built on top of Medium’s publishing platform".
See also
*
Geekadelphia
References
External links
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Technology blogs