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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.

What Does It Take to Get Men to See a Doctor?

For The New York Times Magazine, Abelin-Bevier Fellow Helen Ouyang reports on how men in the United States are much less likely to see a doctor regularly, and how one clinic is attempting to tackle the problem.

The Great Reverse Migration

Thousands of migrants are giving up their hopes of living in the United States and are returning home instead, reports Paola Ramos in partnership with Rolling Stone.

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).

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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.

Code Over Country

The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team Six

by Matthew Cole

The Battle for Gotham

New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs

by Roberta Brandes Gratz

Necessary Trouble

Americans in Revolt

by Sarah Jaffe

Meltdown

How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover

by Katrina vanden Heuvel

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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.

Seth Freed Wessler

Type Media Center Fellow

Rebecca Solnit

Puffin Foundation Fellow

Jessica Bruder

Type Media Center Fellow

Josie Duffy Rice

Type Media Center Fellow

Jessica Valenti

Abelin-Bevier Fellow

Elie Mystal

Alfred Knobler Fellow