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What Works in Community News

Media Startups, News Deserts, and the Future of the Fourth Estate

by Ellen Clegg, Dan Kennedy ...

A groundbreaking study of the journalism startups that are solving the local news crisis one community at a timeA must-read for activists, entrepreneurs, and journalists who want to start local news outlets in their communitiesLocal 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, ... Read more

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A groundbreaking study of the journalism startups that are solving the local news crisis one community at a timeA must-read for activists, entrepreneurs, and journalists who want to start local news outlets in their communitiesLocal 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,
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What Works in Community News

Media Startups, News Deserts, and the Future of the Fourth Estate

by Ellen Clegg, Dan Kennedy ...

Narrated by Chris Baetens ...

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7 hours 13 min

A groundbreaking study of the journalism startups that are solving the local news crisis one community at a timeA must-read for activists, entrepreneurs, and journalists who want to start local news outlets in their communitiesLocal 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, ... Read more

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A groundbreaking study of the journalism startups that are solving the local news crisis one community at a timeA must-read for activists, entrepreneurs, and journalists who want to start local news outlets in their communitiesLocal 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,
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Work Won't Love You Back

How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

by Sarah Jaffe ...

An “indispensable” (Nation) examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life."In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this ... Read more

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An “indispensable” (Nation) examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life."In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this
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Little Bosses Everywhere

How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America

by Bridget Read ...

**A “gripping” (The Washington Post) work of history and reportage that unveils the stranger-than-fiction world of multilevel marketing: a massive money-making scam and radical political conspiracy that has remade American society.“Reads like a thriller . . . masterfully illuminates the tricks and sleights of hand that in multilevel marketing are simply the rules of doing business.”—The New York ... Read more

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**A “gripping” (The Washington Post) work of history and reportage that unveils the stranger-than-fiction world of multilevel marketing: a massive money-making scam and radical political conspiracy that has remade American society.“Reads like a thriller . . . masterfully illuminates the tricks and sleights of hand that in multilevel marketing are simply the rules of doing business.”—The New York
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Fight Like Hell

The Untold History of American Labor

by Kim Kelly ...

**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and EsquireThis revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people—farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees—behind some of the labor movement’s biggest successes” (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.**Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era ... Read more

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**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and EsquireThis revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people—farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees—behind some of the labor movement’s biggest successes” (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.**Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era
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Fulfillment

Winning and Losing in One-Click America

by Alec MacGillis ...

Fulfillment is a gripping exploration of Amazon's far-reaching impact on the American economic divide.In this literary investigation, award-winning journalist Alec MacGillis reveals how Amazon's sprawling network of delivery hubs, data centers, and corporate campuses epitomizes a land where winner and loser cities and regions are drifting steadily apart, the civic fabric is unraveling, and work ... Read more

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Fulfillment is a gripping exploration of Amazon's far-reaching impact on the American economic divide.In this literary investigation, award-winning journalist Alec MacGillis reveals how Amazon's sprawling network of delivery hubs, data centers, and corporate campuses epitomizes a land where winner and loser cities and regions are drifting steadily apart, the civic fabric is unraveling, and work
... Read more
Move Fast and Break Things

How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

by Jonathan Taplin ...

A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age.Move Fast and Break Things is the riveting account of a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs who in the 1990s began to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the ... Read more

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A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age.Move Fast and Break Things is the riveting account of a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs who in the 1990s began to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the
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Jackpot

How the Super-Rich Really Live—and How Their Wealth Harms Us All

by Michael Mechanic ...

A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit—and the insidious ways this realm harms us all.Have you ever fantasized about being ridiculously wealthy? Probably. Striking it rich is among the most resilient of American fantasies, surviving war and peace, expansions and recessions, economic meltdowns and global ... Read more

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A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit—and the insidious ways this realm harms us all.Have you ever fantasized about being ridiculously wealthy? Probably. Striking it rich is among the most resilient of American fantasies, surviving war and peace, expansions and recessions, economic meltdowns and global
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Disillusioned

Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

by Benjamin Herold ...

**"Astonishingly important.” —Alex Kotlowitz, The AtlanticThrough the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools**Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates ... Read more

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**"Astonishingly important.” —Alex Kotlowitz, The AtlanticThrough the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools**Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates
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The Prize

Who's In Charge of America's Schools?

by Dale Russakoff ...

This New York Times bestseller chronicles how Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker tried—and failed—to reform education in Newark, NJ.In September of 2010, billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg went on Oprah to announce a pledge of $100 million to transform the downtrodden schools of Newark, New Jersey. There by his side were the city's Democratic mayor, Cory Booker, and the ... Read more

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This New York Times bestseller chronicles how Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker tried—and failed—to reform education in Newark, NJ.In September of 2010, billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg went on Oprah to announce a pledge of $100 million to transform the downtrodden schools of Newark, New Jersey. There by his side were the city's Democratic mayor, Cory Booker, and the
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Merchants of Truth

The Business of News and the Fight for Facts

by Jill Abramson ...

Former executive editor of The New York Times and one of our most eminent journalists Jill Abramson provides a “valuable and insightful” (The Boston Globe) report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade, as shown via two legacy (The New York Times and The Washington Post) and two upstart (BuzzFeed and VICE) companies as they plow through a revolution that pits o... ... Read more

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Former executive editor of The New York Times and one of our most eminent journalists Jill Abramson provides a “valuable and insightful” (The Boston Globe) report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade, as shown via two legacy (The New York Times and The Washington Post) and two upstart (BuzzFeed and VICE) companies as they plow through a revolution that pits o...
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Wal-Mart

The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism

Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein ...

A collection of essays that "do an incredible job of balancing the wonders and horrors of the force that is Wal-Mart " ( Booklist , starred review).Edited by one of the nation's preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissect the full extent of Wal-Mart's business operations, its social effects, and its role in the United States and world economy. Wal-Mart is based on a ... Read more

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A collection of essays that "do an incredible job of balancing the wonders and horrors of the force that is Wal-Mart " ( Booklist , starred review).Edited by one of the nation's preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissect the full extent of Wal-Mart's business operations, its social effects, and its role in the United States and world economy. Wal-Mart is based on a
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