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.

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

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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.

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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.

Longest August

The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan

by Dilip Hiro

Been There, Done That

A Rousing History of Sex

by Rachel Feltman

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful

How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

by Jack Lowery

Dirty Wars

The World Is a Battlefield

by Jeremy Scahill

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Fellows

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.

Tom Engelhardt

Type Media Center Fellow

Seth Freed Wessler

Puffin Foundation Fellow

Helen Ouyang

Abelin-Bevier Fellow

Mosi Secret

Alfred Knobler Fellow

Ryan Devereaux

Type Media Center Fellow

E. Tammy Kim

Puffin Foundation Fellow

Breya Jones

Ida B. Wells Fellow

Liset Cruz

Ida B. Wells Fellow

Josie Duffy Rice

Type Media Center Fellow

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Events

Type Talk: Race, Resistance & Policing in NYC Race

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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Prizes

Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship

The Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship

The Ridenhour Prizes

Ridenhour Prize

Robert Masur Fellowship in Civil Liberties

Robert Masur Fellowship in 
Civil Liberties

On the Fate of the Earth

Jonathan Schell Memorial Lecture Series on the Fate of 
the Earth

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