You Tell Us: What Do You Want raceAhead to Cover in 2020?
This year saw breakthrough engagement with raceAhead readers.
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This is the last raceAhead email of 2019. We’re on holiday break! We will be back in your inboxes on January 6, 2020.
It’s time to take a long winter’s nap! We’ve all earned it.
This year saw breakthrough engagement with raceAhead readers: In addition to sharing our stories, you’ve been sharing your own, along with podcast recommendations, recipes, and your best ideas for how create a more equitable world.
You love to see it. And thank you.
Many thanks to the extraordinary Tamara El-Waylly, for her writing, editing, and inclusion chops, but in particular for spearheading the reader op-ed initiative. While we can’t publish them all, look for more resources on how to hone your persuasion skills and master difficult conversations next year. I have a feeling they will come in handy.
Fortune will be putting a new face forward next year, too. We’ve been hard at work on a new site and mobile app, a new look for the magazine, and a new set of premium offerings that will be quite likely to delight you—and at least two new newsletters! There’s Bull Sheet, a daily on finance news with Bernhard Warner (with a name I wish I’d thought of), and Eastworld, a daily on business in China with Clay Chandler and Fortune’s growing Hong Kong team. Click those links if you’d like to sign up in advance.
Stay tuned.
But we also want to be sure to delight you. So do hit us back with some of your own 2020 wishlist topics, professional needs, and dream Q&As. My personal dream is to spend more time convening with each of you, so let’s see if we can find a way to bring these conversations to a venue near you.
See below for a roundup of some of our greatest hits of 2019; putting it together was a great opportunity to reflect on the year and the work we did together. It is a great privilege to have you as readers, responders, supporters, debunkers, debaters, innovators, sharers, and repairers of a broken world.
The top five most read:
- Chief Diversity Officers Are Set Up To Fail
- Why Today’s Google Doodle Is So Special
- Simon Cowell Responds to Gabrielle Union
- Celebrities and CEOs Caught In A College Admissions Scandal
- The Cherokee Nation Starts the Process for a Congressional Delegation
And, as a bonus, some fan favorites:
Here’s your final haiku of 2019:
Hold the shortest day
dear: A new sun comes. It all
gets brighter from here.
We are so very grateful for you.
Ellen McGirt
@ellmcgirt
Ellen.McGirt@fortune.com
Tamara El-Waylly curated and wrote the blurbs in this edition of raceAhead.