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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.

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Applications are now open for Type’s Don and Doris Shaffer Researcher program. The yearlong position is a great opportunity for an early-career researcher and fact-checker who wants to focus on investigative journalism. Apply by March 26th

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Apply for Ida B. Wells Fellowship

Applications for Ida B. Wells Fellowship are open. The yearlong fellowship provides emerging and mid-career journalists with $25,000 and intensive editorial mentorship.

Fellows

This Week in Extremism: Far Right Extremism in 2023 and the January 6th Insurrection

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Type Investigations

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

Why Do People Keep Dying in the Harris County Jail?

The Texas jail is bursting at the seams as officials push for more pretrial incarceration.

Jessica Pishko The Appeal March 9, 2023

When Force-Feeding Is Torture

After years of litigation, Type Investigations and The Nation have acquired footage of a force-feeding at a federal prison. It shows treatment that may amount to torture.

Aviva Stahl The Nation March 8, 2023

Alaska’s Fisheries Are Collapsing. This Congresswoman Is Taking on the Industry She Says Is to Blame.

Mary Peltola won her election by campaigning on a platform to save the state’s prized fisheries. A powerful fishing lobby is standing in her way.

Adam Federman Politico Magazine March 3, 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.

Winning at All Costs

A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer

by John Foot

And the Weak Suffer What They Must?

Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future

by Yanis Varoufakis

Rebel of Rangoon

A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma

by Delphine Schrank

Denial and Deception

An Insider's View of the CIA

by Melissa Boyle Mahle

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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.

Rebecca Solnit

Puffin Foundation Fellow

Ari Berman

Type Media Center Fellow

Justine van der Leun

Type Media Center Fellow

Josie Duffy Rice

Type Media Center Fellow

Tanvi Misra

Ida B. Wells Fellow

Rozina Ali

Type Media Center Fellow

Joe Conason

Type Media Center Fellow

Nick Turse

Type Media Center Fellow

Melissa del Bosque

Type Investigations Fellow

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Events

How We Did It – The Making of Harm’s Way Investigation.

October 3, 2022, 10:00 am EDT

Join the Center for Public Integrity, Columbia Journalism Investigations, and Type Investigations for a hybrid panel on Monday, October 3.

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.

Events

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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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.

Application Open!

Apply Today!

Apply for Ida B. Wells Fellowship

This Week in Extremism: Far Right Extremism in 2023 and the January 6th Insurrection

Type Investigations

Why Do People Keep Dying in the Harris County Jail?

When Force-Feeding Is Torture

Alaska’s Fisheries Are Collapsing. This Congresswoman Is Taking on the Industry She Says Is to Blame.

Ida B. Wells

Bold Type Books

Winning at All Costs

And the Weak Suffer What They Must?

Rebel of Rangoon

Denial and Deception

Fellows

Events

How We Did It – The Making of Harm’s Way Investigation.

Type Talk: Race, Resistance & Policing in NYC Race

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

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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