Hi Vox readers! We wanted to introduce you to Good News, our new weekly newsletter. Every Saturday, you'll get news about remarkable, positive developments happening all around us right now — scientific innovations, technological breakthroughs, and everyday acts of progress. You can sign up here.
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Good News is a newsletter written by Bryan Walsh, an editorial director at Vox. He oversees the Future Perfect, tech, climate, and world teams, all of which cover stories that are both important and overlooked.
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Good News is a newsletter written by Bryan Walsh, an editorial director at Vox. He oversees the Future Perfect, tech, climate, and world teams, all of which cover stories that are both important and overlooked. |
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Thanks for signing up for Good News: Because the world has plenty of good stories — we just have to notice them.
I’m Bryan Walsh, editorial director of Vox’s Future Perfect section, and each week, I’ll be bringing you stories about the positive developments that often get lost in the noise of our news cycle. You might share my concern that our hyperfocus on what's going wrong distracts us from what's going right. While our brains are wired to focus on threats and our media and tech ecosystem amplifies the alarming, there are remarkable things happening all around us right now — innovations, breakthroughs, and everyday acts of progress that deserve our attention.
As a long-time journalist who has covered pandemics and conflicts and crises, I know what it’s like to feel that everything is getting worse, to just want to shut my laptop and ignore what’s happening around me. But those experiences have led me to understand that, for all the challenges we face, humanity has an inspiring knack for not just surviving, but also thriving, even when things seem darkest. And that’s a view I want to share with you every week.
Good News will examine stories of progress happening right now: medical breakthroughs that are saving lives, technological innovations making the world cleaner and more efficient, and positive developments in how we’re tackling challenges like poverty and public health. We’ll look at the world not through rose-colored glasses, but with clear eyes about both challenges and achievements, highlighting the people and projects actively working to create a better future. This isn’t about ignoring problems. Rather, it’s about defending our attention — perhaps the most precious commodity we have — from the relentless negativity that has been engineered to light up our social media feeds. By understanding what’s working and who’s making a difference, we can find both hope and practical pathways forward. |
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I’ve been a professional journalist for over two decades. In that time I’ve been a foreign correspondent in Hong Kong and Tokyo, have covered pandemics and conflict and climate change, and have reported from dozens of countries, before switching over to become an editor. I now oversee Vox’s Future Perfect section, which covers stories that are both important and overlooked, as well as Vox's climate and environment coverage.
Much of my career has focused on what’s going wrong, and what could go really wrong. I’ve even written a book about it all called End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World. (It’s more fun than the title suggests.) But with Good News, I’m going to ask what is going right — and what could go really right. Expect the first edition in your inbox soon. And both now and in the future, I’d love to hear what makes you hopeful about the future, and what you’d love to see in Good News. You can email me at bryan.walsh@vox.com. |
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