Media coverage
Highlights
- What’s the best job to do good?, BBC Radio 4
- Can Your Career Help Change the World? You Have 80,000 Hours to Try, The Wall Street Journal
- How to pick a career that counts: A simple guide to choosing a career where you can make an impact, Vox
- To help save the world, become a banker not a doctor, The Economist
- Don’t follow your passion and think twice about medicine: the new rules of choosing a career, The Telegraph
- Doing Good, with Will MacAskill (#228), Making Sense with Sam Harris
- Where Can You Make The Biggest Difference?, Forbes
- What are the most important moral problems of our time?, TED
- Support for Startups: Y Combinator’s non-profit mission, Financial Times
All coverage
2022
- 80,000 Hours, an interview by Sam Harris with Benjamin Todd on Waking Up.
- Benjamin Todd: How to do what’s valuable (no matter what you do), Crazy Good Turns
- The virtuous few: How effective altruists are doing good better (plus a video segment), Global News (Canada)
- How Effective Altruism Works, Stuff You Should Know podcast
2021
- ‘I thought I’d forever regret not taking the opportunity’, BBC
- Can Your Career Help Change the World? You Have 80,000 Hours to Try, The Wall Street Journal
- The Podcast Behind The Crypto-Billionaire Who Plans To Give His Wealth Away, Women Love Tech
- How to supercharge vaccine production for the next pandemic, Vox
- What’s the best job to do good?, BBC Radio 4
- Maximizing the Global Impact of Your Career, SuperDataScience
- How to use your career to have a large impact, Clearer Thinking
2020
- Donating and volunteering to help during Covid-19, explained, Vox
- Five ways to be upbeat, The Guardian
- Rob Wiblin and Russ Roberts on Charity, Science, and Utilitarianism, EconTalk
2019
- Where Can You Make The Biggest Difference?, Forbes
- The biggest opportunity to help animals is ending the suffering of wildlife, Fast Company
2018
- What are the most important moral problems of our time?, TED
- How to pick a career that counts: A simple guide to choosing a career where you can make an impact, Vox
- To help save the world, become a banker not a doctor, The Economist
- Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on Stubborn Attachments, Conversations with Tyler
- In Running Like A Startup, Nonprofits Find Success, Crunchbase
- What Should You Do to Make an Impact?, Marginal Revolution
- How to do good better, Vox
- Effective Altruism Is The Nerdy Social Movement That Teaches People How To Do Good Better, Forbes
- How pesticide bans can prevent tens of thousands of suicides a year, Vox
- 6 things that the best jobs have in common, Fast Company
2017
- Don’t follow your passion and think twice about medicine: the new rules of choosing a career, The Telegraph
2016
- Doing Good, with Will MacAskill (#228), Making Sense with Sam Harris
- Interview with Will MacAskill, The Tim Ferriss Show
2015
- 80,000 Hours (YC S15) Helps Top Graduates Choose Careers That Matter, Y Combinator
- Support for Startups: Y Combinator’s non-profit mission, Financial Times
- Extreme Altruism: should you care for strangers at the expense of your family?, The Guardian
- To find work you love, don’t follow your passion, TEDx
- You have 80,000 hours in your career. Here’s how to do the most good with them., Vox
- Want To Make An Impact With Your Work? Try Some Advice From 80,000 Hours, TechCrunch
- Ein Nehmen und Geben (German), Neue Zürcher Zeitung (One of Switzerland’s leading newspapers)
2014
- Good work, The Philosopher’s Magazine
- Interview with Ben Todd on Howtomakeadifference.net, How to Make a Difference
2013
- Rise of the Singerians, National Review
- Peter Singer: The why and how of effective altruism, TED
- Join Wall Street. Save the World., The Washington Post
- The young professionals who believe their best chance at trying to save the world is by joining Wall Street and making millions, The Daily Mail
- Wall Street Saves the World?, CNBC
- Want to give back? Get a job on Wall Street, NPR
- To save the world, don’t get a job at a charity; go work on Wall Street, Quartz
- The best career advice you’ll never hear in a graduation speech, Quartz
- A New Donor Movement Seeks to Put Data Ahead of Passion, Chronicle of Philanthropy
- Being Superman: Can Investment Bankers Save the World?, Prospect
- How to choose an ethical career (with help from Oxford philosophers), Fast Company
2012
2011
- Banking can be more ethical than the voluntary sector, says Oxford academic, Third Sector
- Do bankers make the world better?, BBC Radio 4 Today
- Banking ‘can be an ethical career choice’, BBC
- Banking as an ethical career, Practical Ethics
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