Future Perfect is a section of Vox’s website focused on news stories relevant from an effective altruism perspective.
Future Perfect launched on 15 October 2018.[1]As of August 2022, the team consists of nine people: Bryan Walsh, Izzie Ramirez, Kenny Torrella, Sigal Samuel, Dylan Matthews, Kelsey Piper, Muizz Akhtar, Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg, and Siobhan McDonough.[2]
Future Perfect is partly funded by private donations. Major donors since 2018 include the Rockefeller Foundation (2018-2019), James McClave (2020), Animal Charity Evaluators (2020-2021), and the BEMC Foundation (2021-2023).[3]
In April 2022, Future Perfect launched Pandemic-Proof, a series focused on “upgrades we can make today to fight the pandemics of tomorrow”.[4]
Further reading
Matthews, Dylan (2021) ‘Future Perfect: past, present, and future’, Future Perfect Newsletter, October 29.
Piper, Kelsey (2019) Future Perfect: a year of coverage, Effective Altruism Global, October 19.
Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2019) Can journalists still write about important things?, 80,000 Hours, February 27.
External links
Future Perfect. Official website
Related entries
Dylan Matthews | journalism | Kelsey Piper | news relevant to effective altruism
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Matthews, Dylan (2018) Future Perfect, explained, Vox, October 15.
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Vox (2021) Masthead, Vox.
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Vox (2021) Support Future Perfect, Vox, October 29.
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Vox Staff (2022) Pandemic-Proof, Vox, April 4.