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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.

Type Media Center Annual Celebration 2024 Photo Gallery

Thank you to all who joined us for Type Media Center’s Annual Celebration, at which we presented the 2023 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship to HeadCount.

Type Media Center Announces the 2024 Recipients of the Robert Masur Fellowship in Civil Liberties

Type Media Center is pleased to announce Christina Ge and Madeline Wood as the two recipients of the 2024 Robert Masur Fellowship in Civil Liberties. The fellowship, which carries a $3,000 prize, is for law students who intend to carry out significant activities over the summer between their first and second years related to civil rights and/or civil liberties.

HeadCount Selected as 2023 Recipient of Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship

Type Media Center is pleased to announce HeadCount as the 2023 recipient of the Puffin Prize For Creative Citizenship. The award was presented at Type Media Center’s Annual Celebration on May 8th.

Announcing the Winners of the Twentieth Annual Ridenhour Prizes

Type Media Center is honored to partner with Ridenhour Prizes as they announce the winners of their twentieth annual awards.

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Type Investigations

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

How the U.S. Government Began Its Decade-Long Campaign Against the Anti-Pipeline Movement

Newly released documents show the FBI monitoring anti-Keystone protesters much earlier than previously known. Young Native activists were among its first targets.

Adam Federman Grist February 14, 2024

Type Investigations Names Aviva Shen as Executive Editor

Type Investigations is thrilled to announce that Aviva Shen has been named as our new Executive Editor.

Type Investigations January 24, 2024

The Eric Adams Table of Success

Mayor Adams has said that “all my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success.” Who’s at the table? How are they related? Why do they matter?

Christopher Robbins , Esther Wang , Max Rivlin-Nadler , Nick Pinto , Adlan Jackson & Katie Way Hell Gate December 18, 2023

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.

In Defense of Looting

A Riotous History of Uncivil Action

by Vicky Osterweil

Game of Our Lives

The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain

by David Goldblatt

Crude Awakening

Money, Mavericks, and Mayhem in Alaska

by Amanda Coyne

Lost Years

Bush, Sharon, and Failure in the Middle East

by Mark Matthews

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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.

Isiah Holmes

Ida B. Wells Fellow

Matthieu Aikins

Type Media Center Fellow

Rozina Ali

Type Media Center Fellow

Liset Cruz

Ida B. Wells Fellow

Gary Younge

Alfred Knobler Fellow

Dax-Devlon Ross

Puffin Foundation Fellow

Josie Duffy Rice

Type Media Center Fellow

Nick Turse

Type Media Center Fellow

Adam Federman

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.

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.

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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Type Media Center Annual Celebration 2024 Photo Gallery

Type Media Center Announces the 2024 Recipients of the Robert Masur Fellowship in Civil Liberties

HeadCount Selected as 2023 Recipient of Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship

Announcing the Winners of the Twentieth Annual Ridenhour Prizes

Type Investigations

How the U.S. Government Began Its Decade-Long Campaign Against the Anti-Pipeline Movement

Type Investigations Names Aviva Shen as Executive Editor

The Eric Adams Table of Success

Ida B. Wells

Bold Type Books

In Defense of Looting

Game of Our Lives

Crude Awakening

Lost Years

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

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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