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Fortune starts newsletter on business diversity

Fortune magazine launched an email newsletter that focuses on business diversity.

Called raceAhead, it will be written by Ellen McGirt and will focus on the experience of black, brown, Asian and Native Americans moving up through the ranks of U.S. corporations.

“We believe learning about others in similar situations can help readers in their quest for success, and we also believe better understanding of the challenges of diversity in the modern workplace can lead to better companies,” said Fortune editor Allan Murray in an email on Monday.

McGirt rejoined Fortune in January as a contributor writing about leadership, innovation, breakthrough philanthropy, and keep a close eye on race, inclusion and diversity.

From 2007 through the end of 2013, she was a senior writer at Fast Company, writing or contributing to more than 18 cover stories, exploring and explaining the people, technology and companies who are shaping the world.

She was a senior writer and an editor at large for Money and Fortune from to

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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