Our mission: To share the highest quality stories, writers, and publications on Medium with readers.

Quality levels

Curators review stories and assign them one of three levels of quality:

• High Quality: The best stories on Medium. To mark a story High Quality is to “Boost” it. These are standout, feature-quality stories that deliver value to readers following or interested in that topic. They are given higher weight by the recommendations engine and are candidates for editorial featuring placements (homepage, newsletters, etc.).
• Average Quality: These stories are eligible for distribution but not Boosting. They are part of our pool of distributable stories as candidates for personalized, algorithmic distribution to the right reader, as well as to the writer’s and/or publication’s followers.
• Network Only: Stories that are distributed to the writer’s and/or publication’s followers, but are not given further algorithmic distribution. (If a curator finds a story to be a potential or known Medium’s Rules violation, the story is also marked Network Only as a temporary measure, and then reported to Trust and Safety for further action.)

All stories we review are evaluated using our public quality guidelines, which is our canonical resource for evaluating story quality.

Bias

It is critical that we curate with as little bias as possible.

Externally, inclusive curation matters to:

• prevent the circulation of harmful content, voices, and narratives
• challenge stereotypes and status quo

Internally, inclusive curation matters to:

• build culture and belonging on our teams and in our workplaces
• streamline our projects and the quality of our teamwork

We strive to be inclusive of identities and characteristics that include (but aren’t limited to):

• Gender Identity
• Race
• Ethnicity
• Religion