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The Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship

The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. and Type Media Center are now accepting nominations for the 2025/26 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 13, 2026.

Type Investigations is hiring a Senior Editor

We are seeking a Senior Editor to join our Springboard Project as it expands. The Senior Editor will work closely with our Director of Partnerships to hone and execute the Springboard Project’s vision of empowering partners to build investigative capacity. They will also collaborate with Type Investigations’ editors and research team on the newsroom’s overall editorial strategy and operations.

The Virus That Took My Father Could Become a Greater Threat

For The New York Times, Abelin-Bevier Fellow Helen Ouyang reflected on her father’s death from Hepatitis B, and how it could have been prevented if the vaccine had been available when he was a child. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recently changed the recommendation for all newborns to receive the vaccine.

Type Media Center Matthieu Aikins Investigates the Culture of Lawlessness in the U.S. Special Forces

Type Media Center fellow Matthieu Aikins published a four-part investigation with the New York Times Magazine looking into Special Forces operations in Afghanistan and how the lack of prosecutions against special operators has created a culture of impunity that leads up to the White House.

What Does It Take to Get Men to See a Doctor?

For The New York Times Magazine, Abelin-Bevier Fellow Helen Ouyang reports on how men in the United States are much less likely to see a doctor regularly, and how one clinic is attempting to tackle the problem.

The Great Reverse Migration

Thousands of migrants are giving up their hopes of living in the United States and are returning home instead, reports Paola Ramos in partnership with Rolling Stone.

Type Investigations Receives Press Forward Grant to Expand the Springboard Project for Newsrooms Serving Marginalized Communities

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.

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