Bryan Walsh

Full piece: vox.com/future-perfect…

Daniel Gilbert's line for this is perfect: we're "soundly asleep in a burning bed." With Covid, five weeks after the S&P hit an all time-high on Feb 19, it was down 34%. The information was already there. What changed was when the virus stopped feeling like an Over There story

In early 2020 I had a Time cover on my desk from 2017 that all but predicted Covid. I still didn't see Covid coming — and I was the one who wrote the story. In a piece for @voxdotcom, I make the case markets — and most of us — are making the same mistake right now with the Iran

As animal shelters in the US become overcrowded, it’s not just the pets that suffer. Animal control and animal shelter workers bear an enormous amount of stress, collectively euthanizing about 600,000 animals each year. Vox’s @KennyTorrella explains how you can help: voxdotcom.visitlink.me/M4GeB9

Deadline: May 12. Fellowship runs July 2026 through July 2027. Pay is $74,340, benefits included. Details and application: job-boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/…

Who should apply: emerging or early-career writers with real affinity for our coverage. Published journalist, newsletter writer, academic, researcher — doesn't matter. We care less about pedigree than whether your writing and your ideas show original thinking.

.@voxdotcom Future Perfect is hiring three fellows. If you want to spend a year writing about the biggest stories the media is missing — AI, global health, animal welfare, catastrophic risk — apply by May 12. Fellowships begin in July, remote option. job-boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/…

Based in NYC or DC. If you're on the fence, or thinking "I'm probably not quite right for it" — apply anyway, or send it to someone who should. job-boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/…

You'd work with some of the sharpest writers and editors in the business, across text, audio, and video, with real latitude to shape where the coverage goes next.

After more than four years helping build @voxdotcom's Future Perfect, I'm shifting into a new role focused on writing and other media — and we're hiring the person who'll take over as Editorial Director of Future Perfect, Climate, Health, and Down to Earth.