Audiobooks by Dan Kennedy

What Works in Community News: Media Startups, News Deserts, and the Future of the Fourth Estate

A groundbreaking study of the journalism startups that are solving the local news crisis one community at a time A must-read for activists, entrepreneurs, and journalists who want to start local news outlets in their communities Local news is essential to democracy. Meaningful participation in civic life is impossible without it. However, local news is in crisis. According to one widely cited study, some 2,500 newspapers have closed over the last generation. And it is often marginalized communities of color who have been left without the day-to-day journalism they need to govern themselves in a democracy. Veteran journalists Ellen Clegg and Dan Kennedy cut through the pessimism surrounding this issue, showing readers that new, innovative journalism models are popping up across the country to fill news deserts and empower communities. What Works in Community News examines more than a dozen of these projects, including: - Sahan Journal, a digital publication dedicated to reporting on Minnesota's immigrant and refugee communities; - MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, a nonprofit news outlet in Memphis, TN, focused on poverty, power, and public policy; - New Haven Independent / WNHH / La Voz Hispana de Connecticut, a digital news project that expanded its reach in the New Haven community through radio and a Spanish-language partnership; - Storm Lake Times Pilot, a print newspaper in rural Iowa innovating with a hybrid for-profit/nonprofit model; and - Texas Tribune, once a pioneering upstart, now one of the most well-known-and successful-digital newsrooms in the country. Through a blend of on-the-ground reporting and interviews, Clegg and Kennedy show how these operations found seed money and support, and how they hired staff, forged their missions, and navigated challenges from the pandemic to police intimidation to stand as the last bastion of collective truth-and keep local news in local hands.

Dan Kennedy, Ellen Clegg (Author), Chris Baetens (Narrator)

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How to Succeed in Business By Breaking All the Rules: A Plan for Entrepreneurs

In How to Succeed in Business by Breaking All the Rules, self-made millionaire Dan Kennedy debunks the many myths about how to make it big. According to Kennedy, there is only one rule you need to know, and that is rules are made to be broken. Conventional wisdom about the oath to the good life doesn't show you how to get there. But Kennedy does. In this plain-talking, practical, and enlightening book, he shares the invaluable contrarian strategies tha absolutely guarantee prosperity.

Dan Kennedy (Author), Stanislav Ivanov (Narrator)

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American Spirit

When Matthew, a forty-something media executive, finds his Manhattan job, health, and Connecticut marriage crumbling, he goes native: Drinks in his car. Gives drug-dealing a shot. Looks for direction in light-rock lyrics, takes a free crafting class at the community center, and gets in a fistfight with a meditation instructor. He also tries jogging. Soon he's on a stumbling, sideways vision quest that takes him from strip malls to national parks to a Bali medical clinic, from an unlikely romance with a Hollywood agent specializing in hot young vampire roles to extreme RVing with a disgraced Wall Street trader. In this heroic, hilarious debut novel, Dan Kennedy, a mainstay of the storytelling phenomenon The Moth, gives us an Everyman who takes us to the dark valleys and neon-lit edges of contemporary American life.

Dan Kennedy (Author), Dan Kennedy (Narrator)

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Rock On

Dan Kennedy (Author), Dan Kennedy (Narrator)

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Psycho-Cybernetics (Updated and Revised)

o Develop self-confidence o Overcome procrastination and indecisiveness o Improve your health o Make more money Dr. Maxwell Maltz was a renowned pioneer in plastic surgery when he noticed that while the outward changes to his patients were a success, an inner healing and transformation was necessary for them to achieve the life changes they were seeking. Psycho-Cybernetics is a masterful synthesis of proven psychological and physiological processes, which took Dr. Maltz 29 years of research and testing to develop. His groundbreaking work, Psycho-Cybernetics, has become an all-time classic in the field of self-image psychology. Since its first publication, this book has inspired and helped millions to achieve ambitious and life-changing goals. Recently revised and updated, this unabridged audio edition of Psycho-Cybernetics remains true to Dr. Maltz's visionary approach and proven groundbreaking techniques. These techniques that will lead to a dynamic new self-image, greater self-esteem, and the means to achieve a lifetime of success and happiness.

Dan Kennedy, Dan S. Kennedy, F.I.C.S. Maxwell Maltz, M.D., Maxwell Maltz, Maxwell Maltz M.D. (Author), Paul Michael (Narrator)

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