key people jim giles co founder bobbie johnson co founder owner medium number of employees 5 website medium.com matter matter is the online magazine published by matter studios a multi platform content studio owned by twitter founder ev williams . in february 2016 it became the first digital publication to win a national magazine award in the prestigious category of reporting for joshua hammer s story on the ebola epidemic my nurses are dead and i don t know if i m already infected . 1 matter began life as an online publication specializing in long form articles about science technology medicine and the environment . the founders journalists bobbie johnson and jim giles funded the project by raising 140 000 on kickstarter in march 2012 . 2 the success of the campaign generated discussion about new business models in journalism . 3 in april 2013 johnson and giles announced that matter had been acquired by medium a new publishing platform established by twitter founder ev williams . 4 in june 2014 matter was relaunched as a general interest publication under editor in chief mark lotto . 5 as part of its expansion into matter studios under co chief creative officers mark lotto and hillary frey it will now produce digital journalism podcasts books live events documentaries and web series . 6 references edit ellie awards 2016 winners announced asme . www.magazine.org . retrieved 2016 08 25 . matter . kickstarter . retrieved 2016 08 25 . salmon by felix . matter s vision for long form journalism . reuters blogs . retrieved 2016 08 25 . jemima kiss 2013 04 17 . ev williams acquires long form journalism project matter . the guardian . retrieved 2013 05 22 . the 60 second interview mark lotto editor in chief of matter and senior editor of medium . retrieved 2016 08 25 . hagey keach 2016 03 21 . medium spins off online magazine matter . wall street journal . issn 0099 9660 . retrieved 2016 08 25 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title matter magazine & oldid 736251190 categories american online magazinesenglish language magazineskickstarter projectsmagazines established in 2012popular science magazines navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 26 august 2016 at 06 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view