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Tribute during the 32nd annual Gotham Awards Ceremony in New York City on November 28, 2022.</p><p>Watch Julianne Moore's introduction, a sizzle reel showcasing the evolution of Audible, and Don's remarks in the short video above.</p></div><div class="SingleCopy_SingleCopy__bLg2o"><p>Academy Award-winning actor Julianne Moore introduced Katz, praising not only his founding a company that redefined the digital media revolution, but also sharing that, “Don’s commitment to redressing structural inequality is reflected in his stated corporate purpose to make Audible a company that pursues meaning in ways that transcend what it does. Audible’s unique employment and training programs and innovative start-ups like <a href="https://www.newarkworkingkitchens.com/" target="_blank">Newark Working Kitchens</a> and <a href="/about/impact/newark-venture-partners">Newark Venture Partners</a> anticipated the contemporary social justice movement in corporate America by several decades and stand as a model for future founders and CEOs.”</p><p>In his remarks, Katz reflected on Audible’s evolution, from creating our first original podcast with Robin Williams in the late 1990s to our invention of <a href="https://www.audible.com/ep/theater" target="_blank">Audible Theater</a> and our <a href="https://www.audible.com/ep/Words+Music" target="_blank">Words + Music</a> series, which has redefined the future of the memoir. Through it all, we’ve stayed committed to using our storytelling power to amplify underrepresented voices, and we continue to bring our passion for invention to effect real change in the cities where we operate.</p></div><div class="SinglePhotoGrid_SinglePhotoGrid__DQ3fx s-sm img"><div class="SinglePhotoGrid_SinglePhotoGrid__Wrap__cNX4F"><figure class="SinglePhotoGrid_SinglePhotoGrid__Photo__HKJPC"><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/3sa0209epr53/yr0sh7nEGS8ua9FyTOKNk/dd13e91452cd6a19a539c51c95c129c2/newsroom_GothamAwardsv2.png?w=720" alt="Don Katz and Julianne Moore stand side by side on the red carpet at the Gotham Awards. There is a green plant wall behind them covered in logos. They are staring at the camera and Don is holding the award in his hand. He is wearing a blue suit and Julianne Moore a white dress."/><figcaption class="SinglePhotoGrid_SinglePhotoGrid__Caption__V6JDx"><span>Don Katz and Julianne Moore at the Gotham Awards.</span></figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="SingleCopy_SingleCopy__bLg2o"><p>You can also read Don's full remarks:</p><p><em>Being here with so many of the culture’s most profound talents and seeing my much younger self in those clips, I recall how many renowned movie and TV stars over the years have told me that beyond embracing the creative liberation of working with Audible, the nonexistent need for tight closeups or hair-and-make-up added to the allure.</em> </p><p><em>Our repositioning of books as scripts allowed actors and directors to create to an Audible aesthetic that inspired nuanced decisions about how to bring words to life as straight shots into peoples’ imaginations.</em></p><p><em>Today, many millions of Audible customers across 46 different languages no longer clarify that when they say they have read a book – <u>they have in fact listened</u>.</em> </p><p><em>Audible Originals – to act and direct AND WRITE to the intimate Audible aesthetic beyond books – also required artists to imagine outside the media status quo from the beginning.</em> </p><p><em>That clip of Robin Williams you just saw was from 1999. The term podcast was five years from entering the lexicon.</em></p><p><em>The internet was still the phone lines and few people knew what Robin and I were talking about.</em></p><p><em>Robin was emboldened to create a bi-weekly Audible original show in exchange for warrants in a tiny company with big dreams, in part because his mentor, the great Jonathan Winters, said he ought to do it.</em> </p><p><em>Jonathan said, “You have become too dependent on physical schtick, Robin. When we left vaudeville and went to the earliest days of radio, we found out who was truly funny.”</em> </p><p><em>I have told this story, and described the many “golden ages” of explosive creativity enabled by emergent technologies often to creators used to writing scripts dependent on visual expression.</em> </p><p><em>Julianne Moore was part of the brainstorming that became Audible theater.</em> </p><p><em>What if we could engage underemployed playwrights and stage actors to create powerful performances that could be heard by millions of people beyond a theater’s four walls?</em></p><p><em>One Audible Theater invention, the <a href="https://www.audible.com/ep/audible-theater" target="_blank">Emerging Playwrights’ Fund</a>, has achieved 50 commissioned new one- and two-voice plays, including many global Audible Original hits.</em> </p><p><em>If you’ve checked out any of the 31 Audible Words & Music Originals – with <a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Living-Legend-Audiobook/B0BDGMVRPD" target="_blank">John Legend’s</a> fascinating story just released – I think you’ll agree that these powerful soliloquies punctuated by music portend a new future for the memoir.</em></p><p><em>I am proud that Audible has inspired well-performed words that approach art and the artful telling of stories that are so distinctive that so many listeners want to pay for Audible. Even when around 5 million free podcasts enable anyone with a phone or a PC to have a talk show.</em></p><p><em>I feel lucky tonight to have been a non-fiction book and magazine writer for 20 years before Audible during a historical high point for those modes of expression.</em></p><p><em>I also came of age amid the immoral inequalities of Chicago in the 1960s and an immoral war in Southeast Asia. The unique depth of our commitment to Black voices and other marginalized voices from the beginning, and our embrace of Newark, were results.</em> </p><p><em>I am indebted tonight to so many people here, and to many thousands of colleagues who have embraced Audible as a cause over the years, and to my ever-supportive wonderful family.</em> </p><p><em>I am elated by this honor and will relish this moment for a long time to come.</em></p></div></article></div><div class="NewsRoll_NewsRoll__jowGD"><div class="Container_Container__HGGbX "><h2 class="h1 tick tick--centered">Related</h2><div class="NewsRoll_NewsRoll__Recent__fnSI0"><article class="NewsRoll_NewsRoll__Article__RTvKQ"><div class="NewsRoll_NewsRoll__ArticleWrap__iaNcf"><figure class="NewsRoll_NewsRoll__ArticleImage__N_lLe"><a class="" href="/about/newsroom/don-katz-recognized-as-business-visionary-honoree-at-pen-america-gala"><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/3sa0209epr53/7bNBMUikKxqMnZY6SJivbK/76d053e4a5d3892460856f0f9f4fb28b/Newsroom_PENGala_DonandCory_.png?w=420&h=260&fit=fill&q=90" srcSet="//images.ctfassets.net/3sa0209epr53/7bNBMUikKxqMnZY6SJivbK/76d053e4a5d3892460856f0f9f4fb28b/Newsroom_PENGala_DonandCory_.png?w=80&h=50&fit=fill&q=90 560w, //images.ctfassets.net/3sa0209epr53/7bNBMUikKxqMnZY6SJivbK/76d053e4a5d3892460856f0f9f4fb28b/Newsroom_PENGala_DonandCory_.png?w=420&h=260&fit=fill&q=90 1800w" sizes="(max-width: 559px) 560px, 1800px"/></a><div class="NewsRoll_NewsRoll__ArticleTag__F3w_e"><a href="/about/newsroom/category/highlights">Highlights</a></div></figure><div class="NewsRoll_NewsRoll__ArticleText__zl8Qu"><span class="NewsRoll_NewsRoll__ArticleMeta__ipGWQ"><em>Highlights</em>May 24, 2022</span><h5 class="NewsRoll_NewsRoll__ArticleTitle__Xqxi5"><a href="/about/newsroom/don-katz-recognized-as-business-visionary-honoree-at-pen-america-gala">Cory Booker and Don Katz on Rethinking Cities and Creating Audible</a></h5><p class="NewsRoll_NewsRoll__ArticleExcerpt__lxPjZ">At the PEN Gala, Senator Cory Booker recognized Don Katz for founding Audible and the visionary actions he took as its leader, like moving the company to Newark in 2007. 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The term podcast was five years from entering the lexicon.*\n\n*The internet was still the phone lines and few people knew what Robin and I were talking about.*\n\n*Robin was emboldened to create a bi-weekly Audible original show in exchange for warrants in a tiny company with big dreams, in part because his mentor, the great Jonathan Winters, said he ought to do it.* \n\n*Jonathan said, “You have become too dependent on physical schtick, Robin. When we left vaudeville and went to the earliest days of radio, we found out who was truly funny.”* \n\n*I have told this story, and described the many “golden ages” of explosive creativity enabled by emergent technologies often to creators used to writing scripts dependent on visual expression.* \n\n*Julianne Moore was part of the brainstorming that became Audible theater.* \n\n*What if we could engage underemployed playwrights and stage actors to create powerful performances that could be heard by millions of people beyond a theater’s four walls?*\n\n*One Audible Theater invention, the [Emerging Playwrights’ Fund](https://www.audible.com/ep/audible-theater), has achieved 50 commissioned new one- and two-voice plays, including many global Audible Original hits.* \n\n*If you’ve checked out any of the 31 Audible Words \u0026 Music Originals – with [John Legend’s](https://www.audible.com/pd/Living-Legend-Audiobook/B0BDGMVRPD) fascinating story just released – I think you’ll agree that these powerful soliloquies punctuated by music portend a new future for the memoir.*\n\n*I am proud that Audible has inspired well-performed words that approach art and the artful telling of stories that are so distinctive that so many listeners want to pay for Audible. Even when around 5 million free podcasts enable anyone with a phone or a PC to have a talk show.*\n\n*I feel lucky tonight to have been a non-fiction book and magazine writer for 20 years before Audible during a historical high point for those modes of expression.*\n\n*I also came of age amid the immoral inequalities of Chicago in the 1960s and an immoral war in Southeast Asia. The unique depth of our commitment to Black voices and other marginalized voices from the beginning, and our embrace of Newark, were results.* \n\n*I am indebted tonight to so many people here, and to many thousands of colleagues who have embraced Audible as a cause over the years, and to my ever-supportive wonderful family.* \n\n*I am elated by this honor and will relish this moment for a long time to come.*"}}],"related":[{"metadata":{"tags":[],"concepts":[]},"sys":{"space":{"sys":{"type":"Link","linkType":"Space","id":"3sa0209epr53"}},"id":"7AblW81ykfJhPupQHTIYkk","type":"Entry","createdAt":"2022-05-24T11:35:57.739Z","updatedAt":"2023-09-27T13:01:27.395Z","environment":{"sys":{"id":"master","type":"Link","linkType":"Environment"}},"publishedVersion":54,"revision":17,"contentType":{"sys":{"type":"Link","linkType":"ContentType","id":"newsPost"}},"locale":"en-US"},"fields":{"title":"Cory Booker and Don Katz on Rethinking Cities and Creating Audible","slug":"don-katz-recognized-as-business-visionary-honoree-at-pen-america-gala","seo":{"metadata":{"tags":[],"concepts":[]},"sys":{"space":{"sys":{"type":"Link","linkType":"Space","id":"3sa0209epr53"}},"id":"2PjIgKuElcDUdvErBubfve","type":"Entry","createdAt":"2022-05-23T20:02:52.777Z","updatedAt":"2022-08-25T13:34:53.763Z","environment":{"sys":{"id":"master","type":"Link","linkType":"Environment"}},"publishedVersion":12,"revision":4,"contentType":{"sys":{"type":"Link","linkType":"ContentType","id":"pageSeo"}},"locale":"en-US"},"fields":{"pageTitle":"Cory Booker and Don Katz on Rethinking Cities and Creating Audible","pageDescription":"At the PEN Gala, Senator Cory Booker recognized Don Katz for founding Audible and the visionary actions he took as its leader, like moving the company to Newark in 2007. 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As shared by PEN, “Under Don’s vision and leadership, Audible has spent over 25 years at the forefront of the continuous evolution of storytelling, having commercialized the world’s first-ever digital audio player, created a new category for a wealth of creativity and diversity of perspective, catapulted audiobooks into the entertainment mainstream, and in so doing supported thousands of writers and actors.”* \n\n*Senator Cory Booker, in introducing Katz, which you can [watch here](https://youtu.be/yImyr9NUWf4?t=2930), called him an \"extraordinary disrupter.\" He continued, \"Audible was the first major company that moved its headquarters to Newark when I was Mayor. I hope that you all can understand how radical that was. People had given up on Newark. People ignored our city. People declared our city dead. When I had become Mayor, the idea that a corporation would move its headquarters there is a testimony to the visionary understanding of conscious capitalism. Don Katz saw what others had rendered invisible. He saw the worth, he saw the dignity, he saw the strength and potential of our city. He understood that Newark was us. That the American dream wasn’t secure anywhere unless it was secure everywhere.\"* \n"}},{"metadata":{"tags":[],"concepts":[]},"sys":{"space":{"sys":{"type":"Link","linkType":"Space","id":"3sa0209epr53"}},"id":"iBx5Eu5iK5wUmKtS0j1zs","type":"Entry","createdAt":"2022-05-25T13:07:15.375Z","updatedAt":"2023-01-10T18:13:58.930Z","environment":{"sys":{"id":"master","type":"Link","linkType":"Environment"}},"publishedVersion":7,"revision":3,"contentType":{"sys":{"type":"Link","linkType":"ContentType","id":"newsCopyBlock"}},"locale":"en-US"},"fields":{"copy":"*These are Katz’s remarks from the event—[watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yImyr9NUWf4\u0026t=3559s) or read in full.*"}},{"metadata":{"tags":[],"concepts":[]},"sys":{"space":{"sys":{"type":"Link","linkType":"Space","id":"3sa0209epr53"}},"id":"1Q2Kz1b8S1KYC8UEAmjHSi","type":"Entry","createdAt":"2022-05-25T12:07:40.393Z","updatedAt":"2022-05-25T12:07:40.393Z","environment":{"sys":{"id":"master","type":"Link","linkType":"Environment"}},"publishedVersion":2,"revision":1,"contentType":{"sys":{"type":"Link","linkType":"ContentType","id":"newsCopyBlock"}},"locale":"en-US"},"fields":{"copy":"Back in 1997, I met a law student who told me he had been dissuaded from founding a non-profit in Newark after graduation. Instead he planned to unseat an entrenched City Council member. I’m from Chicago, so the idea of an outsider winning a local ward election – let alone a former Stanford football player who was also a Rhodes Scholar and a Yale Law grad – caused me to say to my wife Leslie after dinner, “that Cory Booker seems like great guy, but I give it a year until he’s working at some investment bank on Wall Street.”\n\nAnd as if he heard this and took it as a challenge, Cory has spent years proving me wrong. Thank you, Senator, for your courageous moral leadership at a time when your voice is so desperately needed. And thank you too for introducing me and for inspiring me and what Audible stands for.\n\nBeing part of Newark’s renaissance has indeed become a corporate purpose down to Audible’s core written principles. Our focus on structural inequality has led to an array of direct, programmatic and preferably scalable initiatives, some of which you heard about from Cory just now. \n\nThank you to my ever-persuasive friend Markus Dohle and to Suzanne Nossel and everyone at PEN America. Freedom of expression and the right to tell the truth are clearly in the balance, as repressed voices and destructive digital discourse mark the moment. PEN stands against these dark tides. And so does Audible.\nBeing here tonight with so many people I have known throughout two careers, I think of a few of the many people who touched the course of my life who are gone. \n\nThe great editor Aaron Asher convinced me to spend two of the six years it took me to finish my book [*Home Fires*](https://www.audible.com/pd/Home-Fires-Audiobook/B00KCXF6TU), completely rewriting it to become a more accessible story. I think Audible occurred in part because, however subconsciously, I didn’t think I could top *Home Fires* and its rendition of the long-form, character-driven narrative non-fiction style I was able to sharpen as a writer during *Rolling Stone* magazine’s first decade.\n\nAs the Senator mentioned, my writing life and Audible were inspired on so many levels by Ralph Ellison, who taught me during long tutorials how to understand the music I heard when I read. \n\nFrom Ralph I knew that there was a reason that Newark-born Stephen Crane wrote with genius in an American voice when his contemporary Henry James did not. Ralph taught that truly *American* writers could hear the verbal democracy of soldiers and street urchins talking, the occasionally-true salesmanship of peddlers, the overt lies in tall tales told around campfires, and lamenting in the fields. \n\nIn 1996, two years after Ralph died, when the broadband internet was still years away, a tiny crew of true believers – two of them here tonight – came together to compose a vision statement for Audible, though back then the company was called Audible Words. The statement said: *“We will build a new medium that will redefine and enhance the nature of spoken information, education, entertainment, and other modes of verbal expression that we will help create ourselves… We will change the way an individual controls the what, when, where and how of the words they hear.”*\n\nMy personal pantheon includes Robin Williams, who believed in me and the Audible dream at the beginning and created short-form Audible Original programming years before the word podcast was coined. We had no money in 1999, so Robin invested his own money in a vision of the possible almost everyone I knew thought indicated I had lost my mind. Robin was paid in warrants, and on national TV together once, he pointed at me and said I’d paid him in confederate currency.\n\nTwo years later I got to know Steve Jobs. Steve admired the technologies supporting the digital audio player Audible invented and began selling in 1997, more than four years earlier. But what we bonded over most often was our shared belief in the emotional, even primordial power of being read to. We agreed that nobody could listen to E.B. White read *Charlotte’s Web* in his strangely affecting Yankee way and not cry. Steve understood that once you can actually hear the syncopations in language, when well-wrought words are refracted through artfully nuanced performance, you will want to have this experience every day. \n\nThe earliest Apple iPods were for transferring physical music to a digital device, but they also worked with Audible’s audio service, because Steve agreed that given the vibrant wonderland of American vernacular expression, the spoken word deserved to ascend to the media mainstream alongside music, all permutations of film and TV…and books.\n\nAudible, for many tens of millions of people around the world, has become so much a way to read that few of them bother to describe the habit as listening. For many, the service is an antidote to loneliness and an escape from the myriad traumas of the times, and it is a way to learn how to live a more fulfilled or successful life. It is a way for countless children – and families with children struggling with language processing challenges – to learn. \n\nIt is gratifying that Audible has driven billions of dollars into the business of culture. And it is gratifying that Audible has directly paid more than 60,000 talented performers over the past decade (as Senator Booker reported), along with many more authors, journalists, playwrights, screenwriters, poets and many of the greatest musicians who tell stories via our [Words + Music series](https://www.audible.com/series/Words-Music-Audiobooks/B08JD4NTB1). \n\nNew [Audible Original](https://www.audible.com/ep/audible-originals) listening experiences written to our singularly intimate aesthetic have been created by many in this room. Our global Audible’s around the world – like Audible Suno, our Hindi language Audible Original service and programs like [Audible Theater](https://www.audible.com/ep/theater) – unveil stellar new productions by the day. Search on Audible’s vast [LGBTQ+ Originals repertoire]( https://www.audible.com/ep/pride-audiobooks), or our deep [*Raising Black Voices*](https://www.audible.com/ep/raising-black-voices) collection, to get a sense of our efforts over many years to capture new and historical voices that *ought* to be heard. \n\nWhile it is in many ways so much water under the proverbial bridge, during those early years – more than a decade when Audible was fragile and near-death experiences were constant – skepticism about the idea was the least of Audible’s challenges. Aggressive and often self-destructive business resistance joined moralistic outrage over what was seen as a challenge to text itself—or as it was occasionally posed – to “civilization” itself. \n\nIt should be said that for centuries fear and *active resistance* to change have been a primary institutional reaction to new, invariably technology-born modes of expression that convey information, education, entertainment and art. Written words, whether chiseled into stone or conveyed via the introduction of handwriting centuries ago, were resisted by the stewards of cultural authority from the Greeks through St. Augustine, when reading silently was thought to be the devil’s work. The invention of early video recording technologies and cable television – which the movie industry tried to erase in the courts – and just about all technology-spawned media inventions, including the way Audible created and embraced digital technology – came under attack.\n\nBut look more closely at these many historical junctures, and you will see the most creative people bringing their talent close to these moments to give rise to Golden Ages. This was true for early radio – as the most gifted vaudevillians created a new listening aesthetic. There were golden ages for silent film, for recorded music, for talkies, for on demand episodic television, and now for Audible and the listening revolution.\n\nAs a universe of millions of free chat shows and fast-twitch social media interactions distract from the deeper purposes and often electrifying words and voices that that the best professional creators can turn into literate listening and original art, the most gifted writers and performers and their most creative intermediaries should now draw closer together. \n\nWhether to redress the darkness of the times as PEN continues to do, or to capture and convey voices that ought to be heard after years of marginalization…or just to tell new stories worthy of the telling…we have a lot of work to do together. \n\nIf there are people here tonight who have good ideas for Audible or me, or if you want to explore the profound power of giving people a chance by moving a company to join us in Newark, or if you want to come see the Audible Newark campus including the 80,000 square foot Cathedral we’ve renovated as a home for our technologists – please get in touch.\nThank you, Cory. Thank you, PEN America. Thanks to my one-of-a-kind family here tonight, who believed in me always over two careers largely working without a net. \n\nAnd thanks to the many people here today who have touched the varied chapters of my life in so many ways. \n"}}]}},{"metadata":{"tags":[],"concepts":[]},"sys":{"space":{"sys":{"type":"Link","linkType":"Space","id":"3sa0209epr53"}},"id":"64GU4GRp799gmFAntJb9i5","type":"Entry","createdAt":"2021-11-02T14:51:46.163Z","updatedAt":"2023-09-27T13:00:56.904Z","environment":{"sys":{"id":"master","type":"Link","linkType":"Environment"}},"publishedVersion":19,"revision":2,"contentType":{"sys":{"type":"Link","linkType":"ContentType","id":"newsPost"}},"locale":"en-US"},"fields":{"title":"How He Built This: Hear Don Katz on the Amazing Story of Audible’s Founding","slug":"how-he-built-this-hear-don-katz-on-the-amazing-story-of-audibles-founding","seo":{"metadata":{"tags":[],"concepts":[]},"sys":{"space":{"sys":{"type":"Link","linkType":"Space","id":"3sa0209epr53"}},"id":"32AaSgh0DAEOF9S4xEVF66","type":"Entry","createdAt":"2021-11-02T14:11:42.271Z","updatedAt":"2021-11-02T14:11:42.271Z","environment":{"sys":{"id":"master","type":"Link","linkType":"Environment"}},"publishedVersion":4,"revision":1,"contentType":{"sys":{"type":"Link","linkType":"ContentType","id":"pageSeo"}},"locale":"en-US"},"fields":{"pageTitle":"How He Built This: Hear Don Katz on the Amazing Story of Audible’s Founding","pageDescription":"On NPR’s “How I Built This” with Guy Raz, Audible’s Founder and Executive Chairman Don Katz reveals what inspired him to create Audible, some surprising challenges he and the team faced in the beginning, and what motivated his decisions along the way.","openGraphImage":{"metadata":{"tags":[],"concepts":[]},"sys":{"space":{"sys":{"type":"Link","linkType":"Space","id":"3sa0209epr53"}},"id":"4PdCfHDHtyKc2phXbjZE1p","type":"Asset","createdAt":"2021-11-02T14:11:32.134Z","updatedAt":"2021-11-02T14:11:32.134Z","environment":{"sys":{"id":"master","type":"Link","linkType":"Environment"}},"publishedVersion":25,"revision":1,"locale":"en-US"},"fields":{"title":"Audible_newsroom_don-katz-how-i-built-this","description":"An illustration of Audible's Founder and Executive Chairman Don Katz by Scott Everett for NPR's \"How I Built This\" podcast. 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The interview offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the challenges that Katz and the Audible team faced as they pioneered an entertainment category, starting with his struggle to gather support for his vision. “They just didn’t get it. That made me more inspired to go ahead and try to do it.” \n\nKatz recounts Audible’s early struggles to overcome the relatively primitive technology of the 1990s, weather the dot-com bust of the 2000s and tackle an industry-wide dearth of content. “Only 15 percent of the books coming out were in audio,” he explained, which is amazing to consider now as the global demand for audio entertainment continues to boom—in no small part from Audible’s millions of listeners worldwide. \n\n[Listen to the episode]( https://www.npr.org/2021/10/29/1050511655/audible-don-katz) to hear, in Katz’s own words, about the perseverance, vision and invention that has fueled Audible’s journey to the present, and how it continues to drive us into the future.\n"}}]}},{"metadata":{"tags":[],"concepts":[]},"sys":{"space":{"sys":{"type":"Link","linkType":"Space","id":"3sa0209epr53"}},"id":"4qGGvN5NjMXoaJXhEHUm3m","type":"Entry","createdAt":"2021-05-26T13:16:03.155Z","updatedAt":"2023-09-27T13:00:33.670Z","environment":{"sys":{"id":"master","type":"Link","linkType":"Environment"}},"publishedVersion":20,"revision":2,"contentType":{"sys":{"type":"Link","linkType":"ContentType","id":"newsPost"}},"locale":"en-US"},"fields":{"title":"Businesses Can Help Local Restaurants Survive and Spur Recovery","slug":"businesses-can-help-local-restaurants-survive-and-spur-recovery","seo":{"metadata":{"tags":[],"concepts":[]},"sys":{"space":{"sys":{"type":"Link","linkType":"Space","id":"3sa0209epr53"}},"id":"2xxmnqtnLm9jt34SARIT4J","type":"Entry","createdAt":"2021-05-26T13:02:27.164Z","updatedAt":"2021-05-26T13:13:08.615Z","environment":{"sys":{"id":"master","type":"Link","linkType":"Environment"}},"publishedVersion":5,"revision":2,"contentType":{"sys":{"type":"Link","linkType":"ContentType","id":"pageSeo"}},"locale":"en-US"},"fields":{"pageTitle":"Businesses Can Help Local Restaurants Survive and Spur Recovery","pageDescription":"In Fortune, Audible’s founder and Executive Chairman Don Katz and chef Marcus Samuelsson explain why the private sector should replicate the Newark Working Kitchens model to help communities and small businesses recover from the pandemic.","openGraphImage":{"metadata":{"tags":[],"concepts":[]},"sys":{"space":{"sys":{"type":"Link","linkType":"Space","id":"3sa0209epr53"}},"id":"5Xk9PnQ4656k5qQtrcpOcF","type":"Asset","createdAt":"2021-05-26T13:13:02.771Z","updatedAt":"2021-05-26T13:13:02.771Z","environment":{"sys":{"id":"master","type":"Link","linkType":"Environment"}},"publishedVersion":16,"revision":1,"locale":"en-US"},"fields":{"title":"Audible_newsroom_fortune_NWK","description":"A community volunteer holds a bag filled with Newark Working Kitchens meals for an elderly Newark resident who is reaching into the bag. 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This commitment is articulated by our founder and Executive Chairman [Don Katz](https://www.audible.com/about/leadership/don-katz/) in our [People Principles](https://www.audible.com/about/people-principles/), the core philosophies that inform and inspire our days. [Newark Working Kitchens (NWK)](https://www.newarkworkingkitchens.com/) is one recent effort to identify innovative solutions to systemic issues. 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