That’s a fair point that the pitch is likely overly inward-looking. Perhaps weighting the reasons in favour of creating something like this may have been clearer (or ordering them by importance) but I view increasing community growth and improving outreach resources as most (say 80%) of the value from an EA newspaper.
Looking at particularly popular previous topics for EA coverage and diving deeper into Future Perfect as a case study are both great suggestions for developing this. I’ll defend the B-tier interviews though. If something doesn’t yet exist, it’s hard to know how popular it may be but similar profiles of important figures/ org leaders seem very common in journalism and are therefore likely reasonably popular. I think it’s reasonable to have guiding principles too about content that you want to put in front of people and that this is common to a lot of (even most) reporting (e.g. The Guardian’s added focus on climate change in the last year as an editorial decision).
The pitch is meant as a semi-polished thing to gauge interest so there’s plenty of research and refining of ideas that would be valuable that I haven’t yet done so I appreciate the ideas on what might be useful to do.
That’s a fair point that the pitch is likely overly inward-looking. Perhaps weighting the reasons in favour of creating something like this may have been clearer (or ordering them by importance) but I view increasing community growth and improving outreach resources as most (say 80%) of the value from an EA newspaper.
Looking at particularly popular previous topics for EA coverage and diving deeper into Future Perfect as a case study are both great suggestions for developing this. I’ll defend the B-tier interviews though. If something doesn’t yet exist, it’s hard to know how popular it may be but similar profiles of important figures/ org leaders seem very common in journalism and are therefore likely reasonably popular. I think it’s reasonable to have guiding principles too about content that you want to put in front of people and that this is common to a lot of (even most) reporting (e.g. The Guardian’s added focus on climate change in the last year as an editorial decision).
The pitch is meant as a semi-polished thing to gauge interest so there’s plenty of research and refining of ideas that would be valuable that I haven’t yet done so I appreciate the ideas on what might be useful to do.
This may be useful for Future Perfect as a case study: The 12 most-read Future Perfect pieces of 2021