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Careers in journalism – an interview with Larissa MacFarquhar
At the recent Good Done Right conference, I had the opportunity to speak with Larissa MacFarquhar about careers in journalism. Larissa is a journalist at the New Yorker, and next year will release...
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Tips on careers in journalism from NPR correspondent David Folkenflik
David has been NPR’s media correspondent since 2004, and before that spent over a decade at the Baltimore Sun. He has won numerous awards for journalism, and is the author of Murdoch’s World: The Last...
View ArticleShould you go into journalism to make a difference?
We just completed an exploratory profile on journalism. To write the profile, we interviewed an NPR correspondent and a writer for the New Yorker, and spent a day reading the best advice we could find...
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What do journalists say about journalism as a high-impact career?
Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations" seemed to have a significant impact on the national debate about race. Photo credit: Sean Carter Photography. I interviewed three journalists who have...
View ArticleThe CIA analyst who foresaw Trump in 2013 and his theory of why politics is...
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View ArticleCan journalists still write about important things?
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View ArticleProf Cass Sunstein on how social change happens, and why it’s so often abrupt...
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View ArticleA.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing...
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View ArticleIdeas for high impact careers beyond our priority paths
Below we list some more career options beyond our priority paths that seem promising to us for positively influencing the long-term future. Some of these are likely to be written up as priority paths...
View ArticleBrian Christian on the alignment problem
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View ArticleEzra Klein on aligning journalism, politics, and what matters most
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View ArticleNina Schick on disinformation and the rise of synthetic media
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View ArticleAndrew Yang on our very long-term future, and other topics most politicians...
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Communication careers
Many of the highest-impact people in history have been communicators and advocates of one kind or another. Take Rosa Parks, who in 1955 refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus, sparking a...
View ArticleMatthew Yglesias on avoiding the pundit’s fallacy and how much military...
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View ArticleSam Bankman-Fried on taking a high-risk approach to crypto and doing good
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View ArticleMike Berkowitz on keeping the U.S. a liberal democratic country
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Journalism
In a nutshell: For the right person, becoming a journalist could be very impactful. Good journalists help keep people informed, positively shape public discourse on important topics, and can provide a...
View ArticleJohn McWhorter on key lessons from linguistics, the virtue of creoles, and...
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