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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.

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 2024 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.

Donald Trump’s Pro-Union Labor Secretary

For The New Yorker, Puffin Foundation fellow E. Tammy Kim profiles Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Trump’s nominee for Labor Secretary

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 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.

The Silence and the Scorpion

The Coup Against Chavez and the Making of Modern Venezuela

by Brian A. Nelson

Tropic of Chaos

Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence

by Christian Parenti

Guerra Contra Todos los Puertorriqueños

Revolución y Terror en la Colonia Americana

by Nelson A Denis

The American Dream

Walking in the Shoes of Carnies, Arms Dealers, Immigrant Dreamers, Pot Farmers, and Christian Believers

by Harmon Leon

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Fellows

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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.

Elie Mystal

Alfred Knobler Fellow

Nick Turse

Type Media Center Fellow

E. Tammy Kim

Puffin Foundation Fellow

Ari Berman

Type Media Center Fellow

Isiah Holmes

Ida B. Wells Fellow

Josie Duffy Rice

Type Media Center Fellow