Media coverage

Past coverage

We’ve been featured on Radio 4’s Today programme, NPR, TED and more.

• The Telegraph: Don’t follow your passion and think twice about medicine: the new rules of choosing a career.
• TED talk: Peter Singer: The why and how of effective altruism
• BBC online: Banking ‘can be an ethical career choice’
• BBC Radio 4: Today programme with Ian Hislop
• Washington Post: Join Wall Street – Save the World
• TechCrunch: Want To Make An Impact With Your Work? Try Some Advice From 80,000 Hours
• Vox: You have 80,000 hours in your career. Here’s how to do the most good with them.
• Daily Mail: Young professionals joining Wall Street save world
• Quartz magazine: To save the world, don’t get a job at a charity; go work on Wall Street, The best career advice you’ll never hear in a graduation speech
• CNBC: Wall Street Saves the World!
• NPR: Want to give back? Get a job on Wall Street
• Wall Street Journal Careers Blog: On Our Radar
• Chronicle of Philanthropy: A New Donor Movement Seeks to Put Data Ahead of Passion
• Prospect Magazine: Being Superman
• Fast Company: How to choose an ethical career (with help from Oxford philosophers)
• The Philosopher’s Magazine: Good work
• Philanthropy UK: Oxford students start philanthropic movement
• Interview with Ben on Howtomakeadifference.net
• Practical Ethics: Banking as an ethical career
• Euromoney: Impact Investing: the big business of small donors
• Third Sector: Banking can be more ethical than the voluntary sector, says Oxford academic
• Africa Development and Politics: Who does more for development: bankers or ‘aid workers’?
• Ethics in Public and Professional Life: Banker vs. Aid Worker
• High Flying Ladies: Doing good by getting rich
• Desert News: Are you underemployed? Here’s how you can improve your job prospects
• National Review: Rise of the Singerians

Media contact

Press Office

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Notes for Editors

1. 80,000 Hours is an organization which supports and guides people who are pursuing careers which will allow them to do the most good in the world.
2. It was set up by Oxford University students Will MacAskill and Benjamin Todd who came to the idea after considering his own career choice.
3. The organization is part of the Centre for Effective Altruism, which also encompasses Giving What We Can, a society of people who each contribute at least 10% of their income to effectively fighting developing-world poverty.
4. 80,000 Hours researches ways that people can do the most good through their careers, looking not at the direct impact people make but the marginal difference.
5. This can lead to some surprising conclusions, such as that, for some people, it can be more ethical to pursue Earning to Give and donate a large amount of money than to be a development worker.
6. Research shows that leading a “high impact” ethical career can allow you to save hundreds of lives.

Spokespeople

Looking for a quote or interview? We’re happy to talk to you about:

• The ideas behind 80,000 Hours
• Career ethics
• Charity cost-effectiveness
• Effective altruism
• Our community

Just get in touch and we’ll help you find the person best suited to talk to you about your particular story.