We are Excited to Partner with Medium

To our loyal readers,

We are excited to announce that we are partnering with Medium and moving onto their platform. Why are we making this move? Here are a few reasons:

Independent publishing is essential to San Francisco.

In an age when more and more indie publishers are folding due to costs and basic economics, we want to find a way to keep The Bold Italic alive no matter what. Medium affords us that opportunity by giving us an amazing infrastructure to keep TBI going.

No risk, no reward.

We are really grateful to the original staff of TBI for the brand they built and everything they did to forward the conversation about culture in San Francisco. It’s been about a year now since we acquired the site from Gannett Publishing, and it’s time for us to carve our own path. This partnership with Medium affords us that opportunity. We are working with many of the old freelancers who contributed great work to The Bold Italic, and Medium opens up a new opportunity to work with new San Francisco–based writers.

Medium is the best way for writers to publish content.

We looked at literally every system you can imagine before deciding to move to Medium. We considered other platforms, but Medium is very author-centric and our writers love it.

More to come soon….

In the days and weeks to come, you’ll hear about our new editor in chief, our new advertisers, and a host of other great stuff. Stay tuned — The Bold Italic is not going anywhere, and we plan on remaining a mainstay in San Francisco for a very long time to come.

In coming days we will be adding author profiles and tags to every post on the site. Expect to hear from us soon.

VIVA SF!

TBI Editors