Backchannel was an online magazine that published in-depth stories on technology-related news on Medium.

[1] Backchannel has interviewed many notable figures, such as Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind and Orrin Hatch of the Republican Party.

The journalists who wrote for the site included Steven Levy, Andrew Leonard, Susan P. Crawford, Virginia Heffernan, Doug Menuez, Peter Diamandis, and Jessi Hempel.

In 2016, it was announced that Condé Nast had purchased Backchannel, though no terms of the deal were communicated, and only a transfer of the editorial team was planned.

[7] Backchannel was the last "major sponsored publications built on top of Medium’s publishing platform".