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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 Investigations Receives Press Forward Grant to Expand the Springboard Project for Newsrooms Serving Marginalized Communities

Trauma-informed nurses help sexual assault survivors. Most hospitals in the Gulf South don’t have them.

In partnership with Gulf States Newsroom, Drew Hawkins reported on how states in the Gulf South are facing a critical shortage of sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs).

A Palestinian Doctor in Israel Helps People on Both Sides

For The New Yorker, Puffin Foundation fellow Eyal Press profiles Lina Qasem Hassan, a Palestinian doctor who treats both Israeli and Palestinian patients, and whose criticism of the war on Gaza has imperiled her job.

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.

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Type Investigations

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

Nowhere in the World To Run: The International Law Ripping Children From Their Mothers

The Hague Abduction Convention was meant to reunite mothers and children. Instead, it's often used by allegedly abusive fathers to tear them apart.

Olivia Gentile The 19th June 17, 2025

Trauma-informed nurses help sexual assault survivors. Most hospitals in the Gulf South don’t have them.

Sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) go through special training to provide trauma-informed care to survivors and administer forensic exams. In the Gulf South, there are far too few nurse examiners to handle the number of cases.

Drew Hawkins Gulf States Newsroom June 13, 2025

“If You Want to Live, Don’t Drink the Water”

After mystery illnesses and toxic reports, prisoners at California’s Mule Creek State Prison worry their water is killing them.

D. Razor Babb, Emily Nonko & Nina Zweig The Appeal May 15, 2025

Ida B. Wells

The Ida B. Wells Fellowship promotes diversity in journalism by helping to create a pipeline of investigative reporters 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.

How We Fight White Supremacy

A Field Guide to Black Resistance

by Akiba Solomon & Kenrya Rankin

Coming Soon

Nobody Can Give You Freedom

The Political Life of Malcolm X

by Kehinde Andrews

My Sister

How One Sibling's Transition Changed Us Both

by Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva

There’s No Jose Here

Following the Hidden Lives of Mexican Immigrants

by Gabriel Thompson

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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.

Joe Conason

Type Media Center Fellow

Jessica Valenti

Abelin-Bevier Fellow

Ari Berman

Type Media Center Fellow

Josie Duffy Rice

Type Media Center Fellow

Noy Thrupkaew

Type Investigations Fellow

Rebecca Solnit

Puffin Foundation Fellow