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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.

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.

Kansans Voted to Protect Abortion Rights. Republicans Are Still Trying to Ban Them.

Type Media Center fellow Ari Berman highlights Republican efforts across the country, to restrict abortion rights despite popular votes affirming reproductive freedoms, showcasing a broader trend of attempts to undermine democratic processes. Ari Berman for Mother Jones.

Type Media Center Announces Recipients of 2024 Abelin-Bevier Fellowship

Type Media Center is pleased to announce Helen Ouyang and Jessica Valenti as the inaugural Ernst Abelin and Pamela Bevier fellows. Valenti and Ouyang join Type thanks to the generous support of Pamela Bevier, who has established the fellowship to honor the memory of her late husband, Ernst Abelin.

The Cops Killed More People in 2023 Than They Had in Years

Type Media Center fellow Elie Mystal discusses the fleeting nature of white solidarity following George Floyd’s murder, as well as the lack of meaningful police reform, and the alarming statistics of police violence against people of color. Elie Mystal for The Nation.

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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.

Another Day in the Death of America

A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

by Gary Younge

Soccer Men

Profiles of the Rogues, Geniuses, and Neurotics Who Dominate the World's Most Popular Sport

by Simon Kuper

The Red and the Blacklist

The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate

by Norma Barzman

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

by Kristen R. Ghodsee

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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.

Noy Thrupkaew

Type Investigations Fellow

Tom Engelhardt

Type Media Center Fellow

Isiah Holmes

Ida B. Wells Fellow

Eyal Press

Puffin Foundation Fellow

Dax-Devlon Ross

Puffin Foundation Fellow

Rozina Ali

Type Media Center Fellow

Liset Cruz

Ida B. Wells Fellow

Ari Berman

Type Media Center Fellow

E. Tammy Kim

Puffin Foundation 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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Announcing the Winners of the Twentieth Annual Ridenhour Prizes

Kansans Voted to Protect Abortion Rights. Republicans Are Still Trying to Ban Them.

Type Media Center Announces Recipients of 2024 Abelin-Bevier Fellowship

The Cops Killed More People in 2023 Than They Had in Years

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

Another Day in the Death of America

Soccer Men

The Red and the Blacklist

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

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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