TYPE MEDIA CENTER

We are 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, and sparks national and global conversations while transforming and diversifying the fields of journalism and publishing.

ANNOUNCING THE 2021 IDA B. WELLS FELLOWS

Type Investigations is pleased to announce the 2021 Ida B. Wells Fellows. The fellows are emerging and mid-career journalists working in a variety of media formats and outlets. This year’s fellows will explore topics including labor exploitation, criminal justice, immigration asylum in the deep South, and reproductive health care access. Learn more about the Ida B. Wells Fellowship program and fellows here.

BOLD TYPE BOOKS WELCOMES NEW EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

Hillary Brenhouse joined Bold Type Books on May 24th as editorial director. Brenhouse was previously the editor-in-chief of Guernica, the award-winning magazine of global art and politics.

VIRTUAL EVENTS FROM TYPE

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve expanded our events to include a regular series of remote talks and panels featuring journalists, authors, academics, and other thinkers from our network. Follow us on Crowdcast or click here to see our schedule of upcoming events, as well as recordings of past talks.

Recent Highlights

How Joe Biden’s Green Agenda Threatens the Alaskan Wilderness

Biden administration promised to engage with tribes on development projects that would affect their way of life. But Native villages suing the government say the administration is failing to uphold that obligation. By reporting fellow Adam Federman for Politico Magazine.

How Does Don Jr. Roll?

Donald Trump Jr. teases about a political future. But what do we really know about him? In Charleston County, South Carolina, they know more than most. By Joe Rubin for The New Republic.

New Release from Bold Type Books: Race Against Time

Click here to read more about our book imprint’s latest release, Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America by best-selling author Keith Boykin a CNN political commentator and former White House aide to President Bill Clinton.

Biden is Expanding Trump’s War on “Domestic Violent Extremism” — and It’s Sweeping Up Black People

Far from breaking with Trump’s civil disorder prosecutions, Biden has doubled down with an expansive view of extremism. A new investigation by Puffin Foundation Fellow Aaron Miguel Cantú for The Intercept.

Type Investigations Seeks Director, Editors Institute

Type Media Center’s project, the nonprofit newsroom Type Investigations, seeks a Director for its soon-to-be-launched Editors Institute. The ideal candidate will be a creative and enterprising journalist eager to launch and grow a new project. Learn more here.

Type Investigations Seeks Senior Editor To Oversee Fellowship Program

Type Media Center’s project, the nonprofit newsroom Type Investigations, seeks a senior editor to oversee the Ida B. Wells Fellowship Program. Learn more here.

Lawful Carnage

Scholar Samuel Moyn and journalist Spencer Ackerman consider the inherent contradictions of the endless war on terrorism. By Rozina Ali for The American Prospect.

Remembering Bob Moses, Civil Rights and Math Education Trailblazer and a 2001 winner of the Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship

Type Media Center remembers Bob Moses, our first Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship winner in 2001. You can read more about Moses’s remarkable life here.

The Incalculable Cost of Cheap Chicken—and the Hidden Industry That Shoulders It

Poultry plants, many of which rely on immigrant labor, already had high rates of occupational illness. The pandemic made everything worse.
By Ida B. Wells fellow Tina Vasquez for Scalawag.

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