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Illumination Lost An Editor, and It’s Not Her Loss, It’s Ours
Reputations take ages to build, seconds to destroy
There was a recent piece written in Writer’s Blokke, a publication I deeply respect because of its owner Benny Lim and its ethos and simplistic submission rules. The publication essentially hopes for its writers to be kind and nice and play along with Medium guidelines and rules, and they won’t reject stories on any other basis as long as the above basic principles are met.
The piece was about Illumination — another publication very close to my heart — the first home for my work on Medium, and one that I am a senior editor (or so they say) with. Same reasons for respect — a great owner in Dr Mehmet Yildiz and a team and set of principles that work tirelessly (for absolutely free like all other editors in most Medium pubs) to ensure everyone that wants to have a voice has a platform to showcase that voice.
The piece is below — I don’t intend to make this personal to anyone, and I don’t know the author personally, so don’t intend to tag her. I do know Dr. Yildiz well enough given my time with Illumination, and the other person who I can proudly call a friend is former fellow editor Terry L. Cooper, the infamous editor in question in the article.
