Obvious Corp.'s Medium Snags Star Literary Agent to Head Content

Medium, the yet-to-launch publishing project of Twitter founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone, has hired “wunderkind” literary agent Kate Lee to serve as director of content.

Medium, the yet-to-launch publishing project of Twitter founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone, has hired “wunderkind” literary agent Kate Lee to serve as director of content.

Lee had, until April, been at ICM literary agency.

Williams described Medium at a conference last month as an extension of Blogger, which he also co-founded: Blogger gave everybody the chance to publish their writing on the Web. Now that the Web is awash with content, Medium will help highlight the best, Williams said.

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