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Gen Z Voters - Cost-of-Living Impact on Midterm Voting

Journo request: I'm a contributing writer for Fortune, and I'm writing a piece about the role the cost-of-living crisis played in getting Gen Z out to vote in this year's midterms. I'd love to speak with young people about how they're feeling about the economy and whether financial pressures played a role in how they voted. I can take a statement via email at [email redacted] or, ideally, set up a quick call anytime after 5 p.m. I'm working on a quick turnaround, so please reach out or share far and wide! Thank you!

Billionaire Founders & CEOs - 2027 Profile & Moderating Leads

9 days. 1 city. Zero chill. 🗽I just crammed an unreasonable number of meetings into a week and a half at Fortune HQ in New York. The numbers: 🎤 1 conference moderated for WIN Challenge ☕️ 3 PR brunch meetings 🎙️ 1 exec interview bagged (and already written and published in Fortune), another in the diary for next week 🍝 4 PR dinners, including my first-ever martini at Balthazar with Libby Duke 🍸 (verdict: not for me, but one hell of a night) 🤝 8 in-person catch-ups with colleagues 📹 2 video interviews 🍻 1 team drinks (thank you Emma Burleigh for making it happen!) 🌅2 roof terraces 🎡 1 trip to Coney Island 🧭 2 times lost in Midtown 🌮 9 tacos (could have kept going) 👣 11,496 average daily steps Now, I'm heading back home to London but I want to keep the momentum going! I've got a few lunch and after-work drinks slots left for this year in the City, so if you want to chat story ideas, anything success related or moderating opportunities, DM me. I'll also be at Web Summit Qatar in January. Let me know if you’re going too. 🗓️ 2027 is already filling up fast. If you've got a billionaire founder, CEO or unique career strong I should hear, get in touch: [email redacted]

Wall Street Dealmakers - Term Sheet Tips & Deal Pitches

Pinch me moment! I’m going to start helping Allie out with Fortune’s Term Sheet newsletter ✨ Feel free to send any Wall Street dealmaking tips / pitches my way :) [email redacted] Signal: morganchittum.26

CEOs & Founders - Daily Routines & Money Habits

Thea Green was a 23-year-old jet-setting fashion editor for Tatler magazine when she noticed something no one else had: She was grabbing last-minute speedy manicures between meetings on every trip to New York or LA—nowhere back home in the U.K. offered that service for your nails yet. And just like that, Nails.INC was born in 1999. Twenty-six years later, the company says it sells one nail polish every single minute. 💅 And despite selling for $40 million, she still wakes at 5:45 a.m., hates wasting money (no plastic toys) and has no idea how much time she takes off. Read more about how she spends her life and money outside of work below ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/ebhaCJfT And if you’re new here, hi! 💻️ I run Fortune’s Success desk and interview CEOs, founders and public figures every week about their secrets to success—think Colin Kaepernick, Will.i.am, execs at Grindr, L’Oréal, Chanel and Verizon. If you know a CEO, founder or public figure with a story worth telling, I want to hear it. ✉️ [email redacted] #success #ceo #founder #minset #worklifebalance

Gen Z Singles - Dating Costs & Coping Amid Economic & Political Strain

Journo request: I’m writing a story for Fortune about how Gen Z approaches love in these harsh economic and political times. If you want to talk about what it’s like to date, the costs involved, or if you’re not interested after a long day of dealing with a tumultuous world, please DM or email me at [email redacted] to set up an interview. If you’re a true believer in love, let me know too. Looking for a variety of perspectives!

Banking Executives - Wall Street Influence & Crypto Exposure

Thrilled to share that I’m joining Fortune as a senior reporter on Monday ✨ I’ll help lead the newsroom’s finance coverage, reporting on banking and Wall Street’s most influential firms. (Some crypto will be in the mix again, too!) Send all tips, pitches and hellos to [email redacted]

Frontier AI & National Security Experts - Governing AI Without Trust

Can we build a global AI safety regime when the U.S. and China do not trust each other? In my new Fortune piece, I argued that the answer is yes. In fact, that should be the starting point for the model. Most discussions of international AI governance start with the question of how to get countries to agree on shared principles. I think that may be the wrong question. The U.S. and China are unlikely to agree anytime soon on privacy, surveillance, censorship, military use, or the values advanced AI systems should serve. They do not need to agree on all of that. They need to agree on a small number of scenarios neither side wants to see: systems capable of autonomous replication, accelerating the development of their own successors, evading oversight, or enabling catastrophic biological or cyber harm. In my new #Fortune piece, I propose a different approach to AI governance: Don’t build it on trust. Build it to work when trust is absent. The model rests on three elements: agreed early warning indicators, independent technical verification, and real consequences when commitments are violated. It draws on lessons from another system I spent years working in: the global fight against money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing. Countries in that system did not always trust one another. It worked because trust was not a prerequisite. What mattered were agreed rules, professional assessment, and consequences. The Fortune piece is a first attempt to translate that logic to frontier AI. I’d especially like to hear from people working on frontier AI, AI safety, national security, compute governance, and international coordination. There are still hard design questions to solve, and I’m now working on turning this into a much more concrete model. Governing AI Without Trust #AIGovernance #AISafety #FrontierAI #ArtificialIntelligence #Geopolitics #recursive

Gen Z AI Data Annotators - Work Experience & Income Impact

Journo request: I’m a freelance reporter with Fortune, and I’m looking to speak with people who have trained AI through companies like DataAnnotation, Outlier AI, Micro1, Mercor, and Handshake AI about their experiences. I’m not looking for any proprietary information or anything that could put your employment at risk. I’m mainly interested in what the work is like, whether it's enjoyable, and whether the income has made a meaningful difference in day-to-day expenses. I’m particularly interested in speaking with members of Gen Z. If you're open to speaking with me, please DM me or email me at [email redacted]. Please share far and wide! Thank you!

CEOs & Founders - Wealth Creation in AI Era

NEW: Timothy Armoo became a millionaire before turning 30. Now, as Gen Zers blame a brutal job market and AI for their struggles, the millionaire entrepreneur isn’t having any of it: He says this is actually the easiest moment in history to get rich. “It is scarily easy” to build wealth right now, Armoo told me. “This is the greatest era of wealth creation ever. And it kind of pains me when a lot of young people are like, ‘I’m bored.’ How can you be bored? This is the greatest technology ever in history, and you’re not obsessing over it.” 🤖 💻️ Read more in Fortune below—and if you're new here, hi! I run Fortune’s Success desk and interview CEOs, founders and public figures every week about their secrets to success. Think: Colin Kaepernick, Will.i.am, execs at Grindr, L’Oréal, Chanel and Verizon. If you know a CEO, founder or public figure with a story worth telling, I want to hear it. ✉️ [email redacted] https://lnkd.in/eWDmwANz

CEOs & Founders - AI Doom Loop Hiring Nightmare

EXCLUSIVE: Job seekers are exhausted. Tired of shooting résumés into the void and getting ghosted, many have started paying for AI tools that blast their application out to every open role they can find. But according to Greenhouse Software CEO Daniel Chait, employers are just as miserable—and he’s got a name for the hiring nightmare: an AI doom loop. “This is the first time when really both sides have been unhappy,” Chait told me. “The market just isn’t working for either side.” Read more in Fortune below! And if you’re new here 👋 I run Fortune’s Success desk and interview CEOs, founders and public figures every week about their secrets to success — think Colin Kaepernick, Will.i.am, execs at Grindr, L’Oréal, Chanel and Verizon. If you know a CEO, founder or public figure with a story worth telling, I want to hear it. ✉️ [email redacted] https://lnkd.in/eTcSJKXw #unemployment #recruitment #AI #futureofwork

Parents & Guardians of Teens 13-19 - Summer Job Crisis

Journo request 🖋️: It’s the worst summer for teen jobs ever, and we want to hear from young people experiencing this cycle. ☀️ Are your teenage kids holding down a steady job this season, or still on the hunt for a summer gig? What jobs are they finding luck with? We want to hear from you! Parents/guardians, please reach out to me via email at [email redacted]! I’d be happy to connect with you + your teen to hear more! ⛱️ #JournoRequest #jobs #summerjobs #Fortune

CEOs & Founders - Profiles Of Humble-Roots Success Stories

EXCLUSIVE: Polo has long been called the “Sport of Kings”—a world of manicured lawns, champagne, and generational wealth. So you’d be forgiven for thinking the CEO of a $2.7 billion global heritage polo brand comes from old money connections, with an Ivy League education and a corner office inherited rather than earned. But U.S. Polo Assn. (USPA Global) CEO J. MICHAEL PRINCE is none of those things. “I grew up in the middle part of the United States, southeastern Oklahoma—which is actually one of the poor parts of the country, there are four or five really poor parts of the United States, and that’s up there with them,” Prince told me. Today, Prince brushes shoulders with Prince William, the future King of England. 👑 For nearly the last decade, he’s been running U.S. Polo Assn. out its global headquarters in Palm Beach, overseeing the $2.7 billion brand spanning 190 countries, 1,200 retail stores, and 15 million social media followers. And it’s all thanks to taking up the “boring” job that millennials and boomers abandoned: accounting. 🔗 Read more about his rise to the top in my latest CEO profile for Fortune And if you’re new here 👋🏻 I run Fortune’s Success desk and interview CEOs, founders and public figures every week about their secrets to success — think Colin Kaepernick, Will.i.am, execs at Grindr, L’Oréal, Chanel and Verizon. If you know a CEO, founder or public figure with a story worth telling, I want to hear it. ✉️ [email redacted]

Job Scam Victims - Employment Scam Experiences & Company Impersonation

SOURCE REQUEST #journorequest For Fortune, I’m looking to speak to people who have been affected by job scams. If you've experienced an employment scam, or if your company has been impersonated by scammers, I'd love to talk. Please reach out here or at [email redacted] if you're interested in speaking more about the topic.

PRs For European Fortune 500 C-Suite - Intro Interviews

I’m delighted to share that I’ve joined Fortune as Europe editor! I’ll be covering for the excellent Francesca Cassidy-Cadbury who will soon be starting her maternity leave. I’m really excited to be joining such a talented team and to be reunited with my old Raconteur colleague Sam Birchall. It means my attention will be turning back to C-suite leadership, specifically CEOs, CFOs, CHROs, chief marketing officers and tech chiefs from European Fortune 500 companies. (I’ve linked to the latest rankings below 👇) I’m particularly interested in setting up some initial conversations and interviews so it would be great to connect with any PRs who work with / for these companies. Feel free to drop me a message on here or email [email redacted] https://lnkd.in/eEGeMwKm

Innovation Leaders at SXSW London - Fortune Profiles & Interviews

Excited to share that Fortune is the official media partner of SXSW London. 🔥 It's our first year partnering with SXSW London and we're looking forward to bringing Fortune's perspective on innovation, leadership, and business transformation. Don't miss our main stage session on June 3, Fortune Executive Editorial Director Kamal Ahmed will be in conversation with Todd Boehly, Chairman and CEO of Eldridge Industries and owner of Chelsea Football Club. Our team will be on the ground throughout the week capturing interviews, and stories for Fortune's New Rules of Innovation hub and socials, get in touch if you have an interesting story to tell! [email redacted] Thank you Joe Lewis Kathleen Wilkinson, Charles Wagstaff, Hannah Martin for an incredible partnership 🤝

CEOs & Founders & Public Figures - Secrets to Success

🚨 NEW 🚨 My sit-down interview with Arianna Huffington just dropped on Fortune! We talked about her 18-hour work days, her second book being rejected 37 times, and the one end-of-day boundary she swears by. 👋🏻 I run Fortune’s Success desk and interview CEOs, founders and public figures every week about their secrets to success — think Colin Kaepernick, Will.i.am, execs at Grindr, L’Oréal, Chanel and Verizon. If you know a CEO, founder or public figure with a story worth telling, I want to hear it. ✉️ [email redacted] #success #careeradvice

Behavioral Economists - Marshmallow Test & Financial Outcomes

Forget your salary—this space billionaire says a simple kids marshmallow experiment can reveal whether you’re destined to stay middle class for life. 🍬 🍭 The classic psychology experiment sees four-year-olds given one marshmallow and a choice: eat it now, or wait until the researcher returns and get two. Most kids can’t resist. And according to Dylan Taylor, philanthropist and CEO of Voyager Technologies, that same impulse is exactly what keeps most people stuck financially in adulthood. “It’s this deferred gratification,” Taylor, who made his first million before hitting 30, explained to me. “It’s like, do you have the mental discipline to defer your gratification?” In his view, grown adults face the same choice every time they sign a car lease or tap a credit card for something they can’t yet afford. 💸 🚗 🛍️ ‼️ And he's not the first leader to say he can tell who will stay stuck in the middle class by the car in their driveway. Read more in my latest for Fortune below! https://lnkd.in/emZxkW4F #success #personalfinance #successmindset #money #billionaire LinkedIn News UK And if you’re new here 👋🏻 I run Fortune’s Success desk and interview CEOs, founders and public figures every week about their secrets to success — think Colin Kaepernick, Will.i.am, execs at Grindr, L’Oréal, Chanel and Verizon. If you know a CEO, founder or public figure with a story worth telling, I want to hear it. ✉️ [email redacted]

Amazon & Microsoft Employees - Mag 7 Coverage

It's my first day as tech correspondent at Fortune! I'm excited to get started, and I'm particularly keen to keep tabs on the big tech companies. I've had lots of experience covering Amazon and Microsoft and am eager to connect and stay in touch with any employees from those companies, as well as the other Mag 7 companies (Apple, Meta, etc.). If you want to get in touch, I'm on Signal at Seb.39 (use a non-company device). My Fortune email is [email redacted].

CEOs & Founders 50+ - Late-Life Business Starts & Comebacks

At 50, most people are thinking about winding down; Kathryn Bricken decided to start again. The London-based founder turned a side project—balling cookie dough with an ice-cream scoop in her garage—into Doughlicious The London Dough Co., a multi-million-dollar sweet-treat brand that produces more than a million cookie dough and gelato bites every single week. ⏰️ She worked 20-hour days, often while her three children under 3 slept—not going to bed until 4 a.m. ‼️ She gripped mixing bowls so relentlessly that she destroyed the cartilage in her thumb joint entirely, eventually requiring surgery and a full replacement. 🎀 She fought breast cancer. A lumpectomy followed by rounds of radiation—all while continuing to run the company. Read my inspiring interview with Kathryn in Fortune now! 🔗 Link below. And if you’re new here 👋🏻 I run Fortune’s Success desk and interview CEOs, founders and public figures every week about their secrets to success — think Colin Kaepernick, Will.i.am, execs at Grindr, L’Oréal, Chanel and Verizon. If you know a CEO, founder or public figure with a story worth telling, I want to hear it. ✉️ [email redacted] https://lnkd.in/eNb7wc6T #success #founder #womeninbusiness #femalefounder LinkedIn News UK

CEOs & Founders & Public Figures - Success Secrets & Profiles

Sorry not sorry if you caught my out of office. I’ve been travelling around China for the past two (and a bit) weeks. 🧳🌍 Feeling so refreshed and ready to get back into the swing of things: interviewing high profile people, covering all things success, moderating events, filming more videos, and so much more! China reminded me why I love what I do. There’s something about stepping away from the desk—and into a completely different world—that leaves you feeling genuinely inspired. I’m coming back with a full notebook, fresh ideas, and a long list of people I want to sit down with. The pipeline for the rest of the year is already shaping up to be the most exciting yet. Big names and formats I’ve never tried before. Watch this space. And if you’re new here 👋🏼 I run Fortune’s Success desk and interview CEOs, founders and public figures every week about their secrets to success — think Colin Kaepernick, Will.i.am, execs at Grindr, L’Oréal, Chanel and Verizon. If you know a CEO, founder or public figure with a story worth telling, I want to hear it. ✉️ [email redacted]