Media Coverage
- Keiran Harris, "Doing Good Better"—A Review, Quillette, September 13, 2016.
- Charlotte Metcalf, How ‘Effective Altruism’ Can Save the World, Spear's, August 30, 2016.
- Sam Harris, Being Good about Doing Good, Waking Up with Sam Harris, August 29, 2016.
- Robert Mark Simpson, Moral Renegades, The New Rambler, July 12, 2016.
- Terence Wood, Brother, Can You Spare an RCT?, Development Policy Centre, June 20, 2016.
- Robert Wright, Doing Good Better, The Wright Show, February 20, 2016.
- Michael Bungay Stanier, Will MacAskill Doing Good Better, The Great Work Podcast, January 22, 2016.
- Jason Brennan, Right on the Money, The Philosophers' Magazine, issue 71, 4th quarter 2015, pp. 116-118.
- Vlad Chituc, Save the Rainforests for 100 Bucks, The Daily Beast, December 26, 2015.
- Tim Ferriss, Will MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Y Combinator, and Artificial Intelligence, The Tim Ferriss Show, November 22, 2015.
- Kara Baskin, Effective Altruism: Philanthropy's New Frontier, Life Reimagined, November 20, 2015.
- Brendan Rigby, Effective Altruism, Science for the People, November 20, 2015.
- Thomas Nagel, Better Ways to Help, Times Literary Supplement, November 18, 2015.
- Lewis Howes, How to Do Good Better, The School of Greatness, November 11, 2015.
- How to Be Good(ish), GQ, October 6, 2015.
- Effective Altruism, Radio New Zealand, September 29, 2015.
- Amia Srinivasan, Stop the Robot Apocalypse, London Review of Books, September 24, 2015. [See my letter to the editor.]
- Susannah Birkwood, Doing Good Better, Third Sector, September 23, 2015.
- Rich Roll, Doing Good Better: William MacAskill on 'Effective Altruism' and How to Maximize Positive Global Impact, The Rich Roll Podcast, September 20, 2015.
- Reid Hoffman, Compassionate Utilitarianism: Balancing the Head and the Heart in the Pursuit of Philanthropy, LinkedIn, September 10, 2015.
- Russ Roberts, William MacAskill on Effective Altruism and Doing Good Better, EconTalk, September 7, 2015.
- Steven MacKenzie, We Should Buy Clothes Made in Sweatshops, The Big Issue, September 1, 2015.
- Jill Suttie, Can We Make Charitable Giving More Effective?, Greater Good, August 27, 2015.
- Mary Ann Pickford, Herald Checklist: Books for the Weekend, Herald Scotland, August 26, 2015.
- Charities Need Admin Money Says Boffin, Oxford Mail, August 25, 2015.
- Julian Baggini, A New Breed of Hardcore Altruists are Changing the Way We Think about Charity. But Can Generosity Go too Far?, New Statesman, August 21, 2015.
- KeDavid Shariatmadari, If You Read This Book, You'll Change the Charities You Donate to, The Guardian, August 20, 2015.
- Tony Martignetti, Doing Good Better, Nonprofit Radio, August 16, 2015.
- Tyler Cowen, Effective Altruism: Where Charity and Rationality Meet, The New York Times, August 14, 2015.
- The Rise of Effective Altruism, or Generosity for Nerds, Cause Talk Radio, August 11, 2015.
- Stephen Foley, Support for Start-Ups: Y Combinator’s non-profit Mission, Financial Times, August 11, 2015.
- Ken Banks, Want a Holistic View of the World of Social Innovation? Try These Four Books, National Geographic, August 10, 2015.
- Carol Hunt, It's not Just Chuggers on the Street We Need to be Giving Wide Berth to, Independent.ie, August 9, 2015.
- Colin Bennett, Doing Good Better, Wisconsin's Morning News, August 6, 2015.
- Harriet Lamb, Effective Altruism Is Good - Changing the System Is Better, The Huffington Post, August 5, 2015.
- Anthony Ha, Want To Make An Impact With Your Work? Try Some Advice From 80,000 Hours, TechCrunch, August 4, 2015.
- Rajesh Mirchandani, Doing Good Is No Place for Emotion, Center for Global Development, August 3, 2015.
- Dylan Matthews, You Have 80,000 Hours in Your Career. Here's How to Do the Most Good with Them, Vox, August 3, 2015.
- Melody Y. Guan, Elon Musk, Superintelligence, and Maximizing Social Good: A Weekend at History's Largest Gathering of "Effective Altruists", The Huffington Post, August 3, 2015.
- Julian Worricker, Weekend, BBC World Service, August 1, 2015.
- Dylan Matthews, Why Eating Eggs Causes More Suffering than Eating Beef, Vox, July 31, 2015.
- Eric Gastfriend, Effective Altruism: The World is One Family, The Huffington Post, July 31, 2015.
- Caroline Modarressi-Terrahny, #WhatsWorking: The Effective Altruism Movement, The Huffington Post, July 31, 2015.
- Andrew Donaldson, Do-Gooders Often Do Bad, The Times, July 29, 2015.
- Alex Tabarrok, Doing Good Better, Marginal Revolution, July 27, 2015.
- Kate Appleton, Doing Good Better: Do You Have What It Takes to Be an Effective Altruist?, Forbes, July 23, 2015.
- Adele Peters, You Are The 1%: How One Person Can Save Dozens Of Lives, Fast Company, July 22, 2015.
- Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Gates Foundation CEO, The Case For Putting Your Head Where Your Heart Is, Medium, July 16, 2015.
- Jonathan Derbyshire, The Rise of the Rational Givers, Prospect, July 16, 2015.
- Derek Thompson, The Greatest Good, The Atlantic, July 15, 2015.
- Marty Nemko, Effective Altruism, Psychology Today, July 9, 2015.
- 'Doing Good Better' is Published, Development Media International, July, 2015.
- Sarah Begley, How to Do Well When You Do Good, Time, June 25, 2015.
- Doing Good Better, Kirkus Reviews, June 1, 2015.
- Tom Sutcliffe, On Altruism, BBC Radio 4, April 13, 2015.
For foreign media coverage, see here.