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Paolo Confino

Paolo Confino is a formerreporter on Fortune’s global news desks where he covered each day’s most important stories. In addition to his breaking news stories Paolo has written several in-depth features on a variety of subjects, including Flagship Pioneering, the biotech VC that founded Moderna, Italian soccer team AC Milan’s efforts to build a new stadium, and a profile of David Rawlinson, one of only eight Black Fortune 500 CEOs. At Fortune, Paolo previously worked on the Leadership desk where he covered the C-suite and helped launch the CHRO Daily newsletter alongside two of his colleagues. Prior to working in journalism Paolo worked for several years in the marketing department of a Fortune 500 CPG company. He has a bachelor's degree from NYU and a masters degree from Syracuse University.

​​President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Neel Kashkari
FinanceFed official says the U.S. has the ‘luxury’ to play the waiting game with inflation thanks to the strong labor market
By Paolo ConfinoMay 28, 2024
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon
LeadershipJamie Dimon shocks Wall Street, hinting at his retirement in the next five years and reciting a laundry list of red flags about the global economy
By Paolo ConfinoMay 21, 2024
Las Vegas Aces player Jackie Young dribbles the ball up the court as Los Angeles Sparks player Layshia Clarendon chases her.
SuccessThe WNBA may block an effective 100% raise for its Las Vegas franchise’s players even as the sport reels from a huge gender pay gap
By Paolo ConfinoMay 20, 2024
Why can’t America have high-speed rail? Because our investment is a ‘rounding error’ compared with Europe’s, says Amtrak’s CEO
PoliticsWhy can’t America have high-speed rail? Because our investment is a ‘rounding error’ compared with Europe’s, says Amtrak’s CEO
By Paolo ConfinoMay 19, 2024
Four Johns Hopkins students posing on the university's campus with two leaf blowers
SuccessA group of college kids may have just figured out how to get leaf blowers to shut up
By Paolo ConfinoMay 18, 2024
A flight attendant on a Singapore Airlines plane carries a tray of food down the aisle.
LeadershipIn a tough year for airlines, Singapore Airlines dishes out employee bonuses worth 8 months of salary
By Paolo ConfinoMay 17, 2024
Robert Goldstein
FinanceBlackRock’s ‘boy wonder’ turned COO sees a ‘whole new world’ from generative AI: ‘Most significant … evolution, revolution of my 30-year career’
By Paolo ConfinoMay 16, 2024
Kristalina Georgieva
TechAI will hit the labor market like a ‘tsunami,’ IMF chief warns. ‘We have very little time to get people ready for it’
By Paolo ConfinoMay 14, 2024
Florida governor Ron DeSantis
PoliticsLab-grown red meat for the base: GOP governors have a new culture-war scapegoat
By Paolo ConfinoMay 13, 2024
Hiring manager looking perplexed during an interview
SuccessA study found corporate recruiters have a bias against ex-entrepreneurs. They get stereotyped for not wanting to ‘be a small piece of the puzzle’
By Paolo ConfinoMay 12, 2024
An archival photo of an Amtrak train by a bridge
CompaniesAfter getting billions in federal funding, Amtrak is ‘trying to claw 19th century and 20th century assets and pull them into the 21st century,’ CEO says
By Paolo ConfinoMay 10, 2024
Former president Donald Trump
PoliticsTrump promises oil execs to end EVs once and for all in exchange for $1 billion in campaign donations, Washington Post reports
By Paolo ConfinoMay 9, 2024
Stanley Druckenmiller
PoliticsBillionaire Stan Druckenmiller says he’d give Bidenomics an ‘F’ because inflation almost came down before the Fed ‘fumbled on the five-yard line’
By Paolo ConfinoMay 7, 2024
Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner with an approaching train in the background
LeadershipAmtrak no longer has to live ‘hand to mouth’ after being starved of funding for decades, CEO says
By Paolo ConfinoMay 6, 2024
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell
FinanceSofter jobs report could ease pressure on inflation, but ‘one month does not make a trend,’ Glenmede says
By Paolo ConfinoMay 3, 2024
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