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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.

Trauma-informed nurses help sexual assault survivors. Most hospitals in the Gulf South don’t have them.

In partnership with Gulf States Newsroom, Drew Hawkins reported on how states in the Gulf South are facing a critical shortage of sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs).

A Palestinian Doctor in Israel Helps People on Both Sides

For The New Yorker, Puffin Foundation fellow Eyal Press profiles Lina Qasem Hassan, a Palestinian doctor who treats both Israeli and Palestinian patients, and whose criticism of the war on Gaza has imperiled her job.

Type Media Center Annual Celebration 2025

Thank you to all who joined us for Type Media Center’s Annual Celebration, at which we presented the Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship to Kica Matos, president of National Immigration Law Center. Alfred Nobler fellow Elie Mystal hosted the evening. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and founder of Futuro Media Group Maria Hinojosa introduced Matos.

Type Media Center Fellow Matthieu Aikins Wins Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting

Type Media Center fellow Matthieu Aikins was part of the New York Times team, which included Azam Ahmed and Christina Goldbaum, that won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. This is his second Pulitzer Prize.

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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 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.

My Turn

A Life of Total Football

by Johan Cruyff

American Way of Poverty

How the Other Half Still Lives

by Sasha Abramsky

The Big Empty

Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America

by Norman Mailer

Genocide of the Mind

New Native American Writing

by MariJo Moore

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Fellows

About

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.

Eyal Press

Puffin Foundation Fellow

Jessica Valenti

Abelin-Bevier Fellow

Jessica Bruder

Type Media Center Fellow

Tom Engelhardt

Type Media Center Fellow

Rozina Ali

Type Media Center Fellow

E. Tammy Kim

Puffin Foundation Fellow