EA - Open call for EA stories by arushigupta

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Open call for EA stories, published by arushigupta on October 4, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TLDR: Tell us your stories! We are making an open call for EA stories that might be a good fit for a variety of media projects, including: a written profile series on EA websites, video interview series, podcast interviews, or coverage in newspapers and magazines. Submit your stories at:. Every day, people in the effective altruism movement do an incredible amount of impactful work, directly helping to make the world a better place. As part of our communications strategy, we’d like to find those stories—and share them with the world. The goal is to have a wide variety of media that shows lots of examples of what effective altruism looks like in practice, rather than in theory. Especially with the recent launch of “What We Owe The Future”, there has been a lot of mainstream media discussion of the theoretical and philosophical ideas behind effective altruism and longtermism. Our goal is to also encourage more coverage and discussion of the practical work that people in, or inspired by, the effective altruism community are doing in the real world, and the kinds of impact they are creating. We’d like your suggestions of stories that we should try to share. We’re interested in a wide range of stories, including personal career journeys, stories of failure, big successes that have been accomplished and potential big successes that are in the works. These could be stories about individuals, or organizations. Ideally, we would love stories across a wide range of cause areas. You can either share your own story, or nominate other people/stories that you think we should consider (but ideally these would be people and projects that are comfortable with being more widely known). Some examples of what these stories could be used for include: a written profile series on EA websites, video interview series, interviews on EA and non-EA podcasts, or coverage in newspapers and magazines. We will reach out to some of the people/organizations whose stories seem like a good fit and help them move forward with sharing their stories more widely. Examples of how we will help include: connecting them with resources like media training, connecting them with journalists, and/or helping to develop a communications strategy. The stories we’re most likely to find exciting probably have some combination of the following qualities: A compelling story/protagonist (eg. a clear conflict, or interesting journey) Work that illustrates EA values or thinking styles Relatively easy for a wide audience to understand why it's important or exciting New, interesting data that is well-suited to visualizations If you’re unsure about your story, we encourage you to have a low bar for submission! Team Involved: Shakeel Hashim is the head of communications at CEA, and is focused on communicating EA ideas accurately outside EA. He will be leading this project. Mike Levine is a Principal at TSD, a strategic communications firm that has worked with Open Philanthropy for several years. Arushi Gupta was a recent EA Communications Fellow, and formerly the Co-Director of Effective Altruism NYC. The project is still early right now and we’d appreciate any feedback in the comments on how you think we can best approach this, or what you’d like to see us do with these stories. You can also reach out to [email protected] with any feedback, questions, or story submissions. Go forth and send us your stories! Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.