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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 Announces the 2022 Robert Masur Fellowship in Civil Liberties Recipients

Type Media Center is pleased to announce Cristina Guadalupe Gamundi Garcia and Sebastián Ramírez as the two recipients of the 2022 Robert Masur Fellowship in Civil Liberties. The fellowship, which carries a $2,000 prize, is for law students who intend to carry out significant activities over the summer between their first and second years related to civil rights and/or civil liberties.

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Two Type Fellows Receive 2022 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

Puffin Foundation Fellow Matthieu Aikins and Ida B. Wells Fellow Lila Hassan are part of the New York Times team to win the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for their “courageous and relentless reporting.”

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A New Book About the Women’s House of Detention in Greenwich Village

Bold Type Books author Hugh Ryan joins Alison Stewart on WNYC’s All Of It, and Terry Gross on Fresh Air, to discuss his new book “The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison.”

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Announcing Primary Sources, a new Podcast from Type & Public Books

Type is thrilled to announce a new podcast, Primary Sources, where writers and thinkers talk about the greatest influences on their work. A joint production with Public Books, the show is hosted by Type’s Puffin Foundation Fellow Eyal Press.

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Type Investigations

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

Collage of complaints from inmates regarding excessive heat at the Washington State Penitentiary

When the Heat Is Unbearable but There’s Nowhere to Go

How last year’s record-breaking heat wave caused misery and chaos for Washington’s incarcerated population — and why it’s set to happen all over again.

Sarah Sax High Country News June 1, 2022

How a Major Tar Sands Pipeline Project Threatens Indigenous Land Rights

Much of the Trans Mountain pipeline’s route lies within the territory of the Secwepemc Nation, which has never relinquished its land to the Canadian government by treaty, land sale, or surrender.

Will Parrish HuffPost May 15, 2022

Andrew Hartzler Wasn’t Allowed To Be Gay on Campus. So He’s Suing.

A lawsuit seeks to end an exemption to Title IX that has allowed religious schools to receive lucrative federal funding despite policies that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.

Sarah Posner Politico Magazine May 20, 2022

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.

Rebuild the Dream

by Van Jones

The Interrogator

An Education

by Glenn L. Carle

Herzl’s Nightmare

One Land, Two Peoples

by Peter Rodgers

Angry White Men

American Masculinity at the End of an Era

by Michael Kimmel

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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.

Melissa del Bosque

Type Investigations Fellow

Karen Robinson-Jacobs

Type Investigations Fellow

Sarah Jaffe

Type Media Center Fellow

Julian Brave NoiseCat

Type Media Center Fellow

Elie Mystal

Alfred Knobler Fellow

Rozina Ali

Type Media Center Fellow

Josie Duffy Rice

Type Media Center Fellow

Yesica Prado

Ida B. Wells Fellow

Rebecca Solnit

Puffin Foundation Fellow

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Events

Type Talk: Race, Resistance & Policing in NYC Race

April 26, 2022, 1:00 pm EDT

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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Annual Gala Honoring the National Network of Abortion Funds, Puffin Prize Recipient 2022

March 3, 2022, 6:30 pm EST

On March 3rd, 2022 Type Media Center held a virtual celebration to honor the National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF), as the 2021 recipient of the prestigious Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship.

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Making the Invisible Visible: a conversation with Rebecca Solnit, Eyal Press & Gary Younge

February 16, 2022, 5:30 pm EST

Watch Type Fellows Rebecca Solnit, author of “Orwell’s Roses,” and Eyal Press, author of “Dirty Work,” in a conversation moderated by Type Knobler Fellow Gary Younge.

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Editors Institute

The Editors Institute is a new program that trains journalists from underrepresented backgrounds to become investigative editors. Its goals are threefold: To help emerging editors better compete for jobs as leaders in their newsrooms; help news outlets find highly skilled investigative editors at a time when such candidates are scarce; and help diversify a traditionally white, male- dominated field.

Type Announces the 2022 Robert Masur Fellowship in Civil Liberties Recipients

Two Type Fellows Receive 2022 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

A New Book About the Women’s House of Detention in Greenwich Village

Announcing Primary Sources, a new Podcast from Type & Public Books

Type Investigations

When the Heat Is Unbearable but There’s Nowhere to Go

How a Major Tar Sands Pipeline Project Threatens Indigenous Land Rights

Andrew Hartzler Wasn’t Allowed To Be Gay on Campus. So He’s Suing.

Ida B. Wells

Bold Type Books

Rebuild the Dream

The Interrogator

Herzl’s Nightmare

Angry White Men

Fellows

Events

Type Talk: Race, Resistance & Policing in NYC Race

Annual Gala Honoring the National Network of Abortion Funds, Puffin Prize Recipient 2022

Making the Invisible Visible: a conversation with Rebecca Solnit, Eyal Press & Gary Younge

Editors Institute

Prizes

The Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship

Ridenhour Prize

Robert Masur Fellowship in  Civil Liberties

Jonathan Schell Memorial Lecture Series on the Fate of  the Earth

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