I donāt necessarily mean āwritten by journalistsā, though thereās been a lot of good journalistic coverage of EA.
I mean āin the style of long-form journalismā: Telling an interesting story about the work of a person/āorganization, while mixing in the origin story, interesting details about the people involved, photos, etc.
Examples of projects I think could get the journalistic treatment:
What writing currently exists like this? Voxās Future Perfect, maybe a few one-off articles in other major publications?
Whereās best to publish this? Feels like a lot of work for a blogpost, but I doubt the NYT is looking for unsolicited submissionsāare there publishing platforms that would be interested in this?
Future Perfect and a few one-off articles, mostly. Tom Chivers is a journalist with strong EA leanings who routinely writes from that perspective.
Whereās best to publish this?
I wasnāt thinking that these stories would have to be published by a large media outlet; I just want them to exist somewhere so that I can share them with people who are new to the movement.
Getting published on a wider platform could be great for certain orgs (e.g. Wave is just a business, I imagine they wouldnāt mind the attention), but bad for others (CSET generally keeps its work fairly private). Iād hope that anyone writing one of these hypothetical stories would check the orgās publicity preferences before submitting a story anywhere!
I read in as-yet-unpublished post that the best approach for getting published in a major outlet without being on their staff is not to just write something and then send it to various publications, but rather to pick an outlet and optimise the piece (or versions of it) for that outletās style, topic choices, readership, etc. (Iām not sure what the evidence base for that claim was, and have 0 relevant knowledge of my own.)
If that is a good approach, one could still potentially pick a few outlets and write somewhat different versions for each, rather than putting all their eggs in one basket. Or write one optimised version at a time, and not invest additional effort until that one is rejected. And one version could also be posted to the EA Forum and/āor Medium and/āor similar places, in the meantime. (Unless that would reduce odds of publication by a major outlet?)
Makes a lot of sense, Iām sure Vox and the New York Times are interested in very different kinds of submissions, writing with a particular style in mind probably dramatically increases the odds of publication.
I still wonder what the success rate here isācloser to 1% or to 10%? If the latter, I could see this being pretty impactful and possibly scalable.
More journalistic articles about EA projects.
I donāt necessarily mean āwritten by journalistsā, though thereās been a lot of good journalistic coverage of EA.
I mean āin the style of long-form journalismā: Telling an interesting story about the work of a person/āorganization, while mixing in the origin story, interesting details about the people involved, photos, etc.
Examples of projects I think could get the journalistic treatment:
Charity Entrepreneurship (the story of an entire incubation program class)
Wave
The EAF Zurich ballot initiative
The Center for Election Science (covering their Fargo approval voting campaign and their work in St. Louis)
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Future Generations
Thatās a super cool idea.
What writing currently exists like this? Voxās Future Perfect, maybe a few one-off articles in other major publications?
Whereās best to publish this? Feels like a lot of work for a blogpost, but I doubt the NYT is looking for unsolicited submissionsāare there publishing platforms that would be interested in this?
Future Perfect and a few one-off articles, mostly. Tom Chivers is a journalist with strong EA leanings who routinely writes from that perspective.
I wasnāt thinking that these stories would have to be published by a large media outlet; I just want them to exist somewhere so that I can share them with people who are new to the movement.
Getting published on a wider platform could be great for certain orgs (e.g. Wave is just a business, I imagine they wouldnāt mind the attention), but bad for others (CSET generally keeps its work fairly private). Iād hope that anyone writing one of these hypothetical stories would check the orgās publicity preferences before submitting a story anywhere!
I read in as-yet-unpublished post that the best approach for getting published in a major outlet without being on their staff is not to just write something and then send it to various publications, but rather to pick an outlet and optimise the piece (or versions of it) for that outletās style, topic choices, readership, etc. (Iām not sure what the evidence base for that claim was, and have 0 relevant knowledge of my own.)
If that is a good approach, one could still potentially pick a few outlets and write somewhat different versions for each, rather than putting all their eggs in one basket. Or write one optimised version at a time, and not invest additional effort until that one is rejected. And one version could also be posted to the EA Forum and/āor Medium and/āor similar places, in the meantime. (Unless that would reduce odds of publication by a major outlet?)
Makes a lot of sense, Iām sure Vox and the New York Times are interested in very different kinds of submissions, writing with a particular style in mind probably dramatically increases the odds of publication.
I still wonder what the success rate here isācloser to 1% or to 10%? If the latter, I could see this being pretty impactful and possibly scalable.