Why Most of My Stories Are Behind the Medium Paywall

Matthew John
3 min readJul 27, 2018
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Shortly after I had my first article published in Extra Newsfeed, I began realizing some Medium content was adorned with a little black star and the phrase “story for members.” The notion that I could actually get paid to write was very exciting, and I jumped on board immediately, for two main reasons.

I have a significant student loan burden.

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Matthew John

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