Water Wars: Ethiopia and Kenya
Notable Entry, Interactive Narratives. 2008 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.
Pulitzer Gateway: Water Wars
Visit the interactive Water Wars Web Portal, sponsored by the Pulitzer Center On Crisis Reporting.
Kibera: Not a Drop to Drink
The long rainy season in Kenya has begun and sudden storms regularly burst over Nairobi. Many welcome the downpours, which signal the end of another dry summer and wash the steamy crowded capital clean each morning.
As featured in Women's eNews, 1h2o.org, and Living on Earth. Produced in association with the Pulitzer Center On Crisis Reporting.
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Common Language Project Staff
In keeping with the core values of the Common Language Project, the CLP is organized in a non-hierarchical fashion. Three core staff members have equal influence over all leadership decisions, and all three staff members regularly research, report, photograph and record stories for the project. Nonetheless, each staff member's skills are focused in a different area, and therefore each is charged with the management of particular facets of the organization.
Core Staff and Interns
Sarah Stuteville
Executive Editor, Lead Journalist
Sarah graduated from Hunter College in January 2006. She won the 2008 SPJ Award for Business Reporting, First Place (with co-writer Alex Stonehill), and has won several Independent Press Association Awards, including the 2006 award for Best Feature article, Dismantling a Dangerous Past. Sarah's writing has been published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Seattle Weekly, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Visit Sarah's East Africa blog for her latest CLP reporting.
Alex Stonehill
Executive Editor, Lead Photojournalist, Videographer
Alex graduated from New School University in 2003. He won the 2008 SPJ Award for Business Reporting, First Place, for the feature Bitter Harvest (co-written with Sarah Stuteville). His video work has been featured on PBS's Foreign Exchange with Daljit Dhaliwal and FRONTLINE/World and his photography has been printed in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Seattle Weekly, Kenya's Daily Nation, and others. Visit Alex's East Africa blog for his latest CLP reporting.
Jessica Partnow
Executive Director, Lead Audio Producer, Webmaster
Jessica graduated from Hunter College in January 2006. She has produced radio for NPR, the World Vision Report and PRI's The World, and she was a 2006 Knight New Media Fellow at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Her radio series Life on the Duwamish received the 2008 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for News Series. Visit Jessica's East Africa blog for her latest CLP reporting.
Ernest Waititu
Founder, AfrikaNews.org; Reporter
Ernest Waititu, a native of Kenya, has a master's degree in journalism from E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University, where he earlier earned a Master of Arts in International Affairs. Waititu received his first degree in English and Literature from Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. He has interned with the CNN International Desk in Atlanta and written for The Standard and The Nation newspapers in Kenya and The Athens NEWS in Athens, Ohio. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Afrikanews.org.Visit Ernest's East Africa blog for his latest CLP reporting.
Julia Marino
Videographer, East Africa Intern
Julia is a Master's student in Photography with a concentration in Interactive Multimedia at the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. She received her BS with honors in Magazine Journalism from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in June 2007, and was awarded the John R. Wilhelm International Reporting Scholarship to work as the CLP's East Africa intern and Videographer. Last year she co-produced A Danger to Democracy, an audio slideshow focusing on voter fraud in Ohio and its affect on voters in the 2006 midterm elections. She has reported from Spain and Bolivia and published articles and multimedia in The Akron Beacon Journal, Speakeasymag.com, Southeast Ohio Magazine, Get Out! magazine and SoulofAthens.com. Visit Julia's East Africa blog for her latest CLP reporting.
Camille Stuteville
Funding and Outreach Coordinator
Camille graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative History of Ideas and Comparative Religion in the Spring of 2007. During her time at the university Camille lived and studied in the Southern Mexican town of Oaxaca. She has also traveled in Western and Eastern Europe most notably in Croatia and Bosnia. Additionally she spent September 2006 in Turkey discovering the country's diverse religious history. Camille recently joined the CLP team as Funding and Outreach Coordinator and organized our first annual Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction, Celebrate Global Voices, helping to raise over $5,000 to support upcoming reporting from Eastern Africa. Thanks Camille!
Tyler Peckenpaugh
Web Developer
Currently an English and Linguistics double major at Western Washington University, Tyler is a godsend to the Common Language Project, offering expert web advice and assistance whenever our "real" webmaster remembers that she doesn't actually know what she's doing. Tyler spearheaded our recent redesign for the site, and seems to know more about the web than anyone else on the planet. Thanks Tyler!