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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.

Type Media Center Annual Celebration 2025

Thank you to all who joined us for Type Media Center’s Annual Celebration, at which we presented the Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship to Kica Matos, president of National Immigration Law Center. Alfred Nobler fellow Elie Mystal hosted the evening. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and founder of Futuro Media Group Maria Hinojosa introduced Matos.

Type Media Center Fellow Matthieu Aikins Wins Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting

Type Media Center fellow Matthieu Aikins was part of the New York Times team, which included Azam Ahmed and Christina Goldbaum, that won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. This is his second Pulitzer Prize.

Kica Matos is the Recipient of the Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship

Type Media Center is pleased to announce that Kica Matos, president of National Immigration Law Center, is the 2025 recipient of the Puffin Prize For Creative Citizenship.

Why Airline Pilots Feel Pushed to Hide Their Mental Illness

For The New York Times, Abelin-Bevier Fellow Helen Ouyang examines how the Federal Aviation Administration’s stringent requirements concerning mental health treatment puts pressure on pilots to not seek treatment.

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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 March 10, 2025

How Wisconsin’s investigations into police shootings protect officers

Cops under investigation get special privileges, can change their stories and are rarely charged.

Isiah Holmes Wisconsin Examiner February 12, 2025

Trump’s Greenland Problem

As the president-elect’s call to buy—or take—a sovereign country moves from punchline to possibility, a look at the real stakes of the Arctic’s mounting cold war.

Adam Federman In These Times January 16, 2025

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.

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.

Kill the Messenger

How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb

by Nick Schou

The Best of The Nation

Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture

by Victor Navasky

Unsustainable

How Economic Dogma is Destroying American Prosperity

by Eamonn Fingleton

Tragedy in Crimson

How the Dalai Lama Conquered the World but Lost the Battle with China

by Tim Johnson

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Fellows

About

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.

Nick Turse

Type Media Center Fellow

Rebecca Solnit

Puffin Foundation Fellow

Josie Duffy Rice

Type Media Center Fellow

Seth Freed Wessler

Puffin Foundation Fellow

Elie Mystal

Alfred Knobler Fellow

Jessica Bruder

Type Media Center Fellow