Stories by CLP
How Does Your News Taste?
Fast News: It's cheap and easy, and mega-corporations are jamming it down our throats everywhere we turn, leaving us feeling bloated and uninformed. Enter the Slow Journalism movement, led by the Common Language Project, with the patience and expertise to deliver thoughtful news reports that nourish our minds and spirits.
[more]
Categories: USA, CLP Updates, The Media
CLP@Tedx Seattle
CLP Co-founder Sarah Stuteville spoke at the Friday April 16th Tedx Seattle event with CLP collaborator Morgan Dusatko, presenting our latest brilliant/crazy idea, America in 5. The full video of their talk will be online soon, but in the meantime, you can check out this background page with tweets and searches related to their talk, or click 'more' to watch the America In 5 pilot story, Joy, a five minute video on one family's struggle to find a home.
[more]
Categories: CLP Updates
Haiti Contributor Grant Fuller's Slideshow on NYTimes.com
Check out this audio slideshow on NYTimes.com. CLP contributor Grant Fuller recorded all the audio and conducted the interviews. Photographs are by Lynsey Addario. The slideshow accompanies this print article by Simon Romero.
[more]
Categories: Haiti, Watch, Listen, Poverty and Development
Support the CLP through Kachingle micropayments!
Here at the CLP we want to produce high quality multimedia journalism that continues to be valuable for you. Continued funding is important, and we recently joined the new micropayment site Kachingle as a way to offer you an affordable way to support us based on how much you visit.
[more]
Categories: CLP Updates
CLP in Translation! CLP Articles now available in languages from Afrikaans to Yiddish
Visit any CLP article to read in Chinese, Arabic, Malay, Haitian Creole and more! Learn how to say I love nonprofit journalism in almost any language! Click "more" to try it out:
[more]
Categories: CLP Updates
We Made the Finals - Vote CLP WeMedia GameChanger Awards
We are one of just 24 finalists in the 2010 WeMedia Game Changer Awards – and we need your help to win! It takes just a second to cast your vote – just click here: http://wemedia.com/awards/2010-community-choice-finalists/ and click on "Common Language Project" at the right of the page.
[more]
Categories: CLP Updates
The CLP: Now @ University of Washington!
We are thrilled to announce that we have moved in to the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. Over the coming year, we'll be offering quarterly workshops, teaching an undergraduate course in Entrepreneurial Journalism, showcasing student work on this site, and working closely with the University to explore new models of supporting investigative multimedia reporting in our new media climate. We're also hiring two UW student interns this fall. Stay tuned for more!
[more]
Categories: CLP Updates
Get Your Tickets Today for the CLP Annual Fundraiser The Journalism Hustle is Thursday, July 23rd
We are cooking up a great fundraiser for this summer: delicious food, beautiful waterfront location, and amazing auction items from a luxurious night at the Tulalip Resort to a genuine Seattle P-I newspaper box! Join us Thursday, July 23rd at 6 pm at Seattle's Lake Union Yacht Club. We'll share some of our most interesting stories from the Pakistan: Hearts and Minds project, and offer a special screening of our recent short documentary chronicling the last days of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, It's in the P-I. And of course it wouldn't be a CLP fundraiser without music, food, and booze!
[more]
Categories: CLP Updates
Official Selection: It's in the P-I to show at Seattle International Film Festival
Our short film, It's in the P-I, will be playing at the Seattle International Film Festival May 29th at 9:30pm. The film explores the closure of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer at a moment when America's newspapers are on the verge of extinction. Produced in collaboration with The Last Quest and the Something Factory as part of the International Documentary Challenge. Tickets available from SIFF.
[more]
Categories: CLP Updates
© 2010 The Common Language Project | University of Washington | Communications Building | Box 353740, Room 121 | Seattle, WA 98195 | +1 (206) 685-7177 | info@clpmag.org