RD Recap: Medium Spins Off Matter; Harper's Gets New EIC

Matter becomes its own standalone thing. The publication that was part of Medium gets spun off into a content studio of sorts, with Mark Lotto and Hillary Frey leading the editorial operation while Medium and Twitter founder Ev Williams heads up the advisory board. Additional members of the board include Stephen Friedman, Laura Olin, Lydia Polgreen, Bobbie Johnson and Fisher Stevens. “We want stories and projects that are timely, daring, form-breaking, that have genuine social value and cover topics of consequence, that offer unique and underrepresented perspectives, that will bend the zeitgeist and change the culture,” Lotto wrote in a post announcing the news…