Type Media Center is a non-profit home for independent journalists and truth-tellers at all stages of their careers. Our mission is to produce high-impact journalism and literary nonfiction that addresses injustice and inequality, catalyzes change, informs and uplifts social movements, while transforming and diversifying the fields of journalism and publishing.

The Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship

The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. and Type Media Center are now accepting nominations for the 2024/25 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship, a $100,000 award given to an individual or organization that challenges the status quo through courageous, distinctive, and socially responsible work. Nominations are due by February 18, 2025.

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Type Investigations

Type Investigations is a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to transforming the field of independent investigative journalism.

Leaving the Island

More than 13 million Americans may be displaced due to climate change by the end of this century. What happens when you have to leave the only home you’ve ever known in order to survive?

Olga Loginova Audiation

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Ida B. Wells

The Ida B. Wells Fellowship promotes diversity in journalism by helping to create a pipeline of investigative reporters of color who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and interests to their work.

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Bold Type Books

For almost two decades, Bold Type Books has been telling stories that inform and empower just as they inspire and move readers to action. A joint-venture of Type Media Center and Hachette Book Group, we are proud to publish award-winning, bestselling books by thought leaders, journalists, activists, whistleblowers, and truthtellers.

Go Back to Where You Came From

The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy

by Sasha Polakow-Suransky

Diversity, Inc.

The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business

by Pamela Newkirk

The Anarchist’s Convention and Other Stories

by John Sayles

The Disordered Cosmos

A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Fellows

The Journalism Fellowship Program at Type Media Center is a multi-year fellowship that allows emerging and established journalists to write on complex social and political issues. Our fellows form a unique community of thinkers and writers and focus on topics ranging from labor and racial justice to the environmental crisis and international affairs.

Matthieu Aikins

Type Media Center Fellow

Rozina Ali

Type Media Center Fellow

Jessica Bruder

Type Media Center Fellow

E. Tammy Kim

Puffin Foundation Fellow

Joshua Sharpe

Type Media Center Fellow

Liset Cruz

Ida B. Wells Fellow

Seth Freed Wessler

Puffin Foundation Fellow

Isiah Holmes

Ida B. Wells Fellow

Ari Berman

Type Media Center Fellow

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Events

Type Talk: Race, Resistance & Policing in NYC Race

Type Fellows Collier Meyerson, journalist and host of the new podcast “Love Thy Neighbor,” and Dax-Devlon Ross, writer and host of the upcoming podcast “The Burden,” discuss their reporting and the decades long history of NYPD misconduct in communities of color.  Saki Knafo, reporter and host of the podcast series “Conviction,” moderates the discussion.

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Prizes

Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship

The Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship

The Ridenhour Prizes

Ridenhour Prize

Robert Masur Fellowship in Civil Liberties

Robert Masur Fellowship in 
Civil Liberties

On the Fate of the Earth

Jonathan Schell Memorial Lecture Series on the Fate of 
the Earth

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