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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’s 2026 Annual Celebration

Join Type Media Center on May 18th for our Annual Celebration. This year, we will be honoring two grassroots organizations committed to the protection and empowerment of their local communities. Hands Off NYC and Minneapolis-based Unidos-MN will each receive the Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship. And we are thrilled to announce that Chris Hayes will be the evening’s emcee.

Strange People on the Hill by Michael Edison Hayden is out now!

Type Media Center and Bold Type Books are thrilled to announce the publication of Michael Edison Hayden’s Strange People on the Hill—a gripping investigation of a far-right takeover of a small, West Virginia town and how the local community fought back.

Introducing Our 2026 Springboard Project Partners

Type Investigations is pleased to announce three new Springboard Project partnerships for 2026: India Currents, Puente News Collaborative, and South Side Weekly. Through the Springboard Project, Type will be offering these newsrooms an infusion of editorial, research, and financial support to help strengthen their investigative capacity. They join ongoing Springboard partners Gulf States Newsroom and The Blacklight At New York Amsterdam News.

Type Media Center Welcomes Six Journalists As Fellows

Type Media Center is pleased to welcome Rachael Bedard, Jasper Craven, Jasmine Garsd, Tanvi Misra, Ryan “R.L.” Nave, and Katie Rose Quandt to the fellowship program.

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Type Investigations

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

What happened when Gavin Newsom sent a ‘surge’ of state troopers to fight crime in Oakland

The governor promised a crackdown on crime. But in the first year of the surge, state troopers arrested very few violent criminals. Instead they stopped 15,000 Black and Latino drivers.

Annie Gilbertson Oaklandside January 21, 2026

Nowhere to Go: Inside the Texas Boarding Home System Where Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation are Widespread

As the United States faces the largest healthcare cuts in its history, Texas presents a frightening vision of the future of long-term care

Ottavia Spaggiari In These Times December 8, 2025

Fraudsters target immigrants seeking legal help

In Illinois, immigrants have lost thousands of dollars to notarios offering legal assistance they’re not qualified to provide—as well as other impostors. Nationally, the figure is at least $1.2 million.

Alma Campos & Max Blaisdell South Side Weekly December 4, 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.

Coming Soon

My Bad

A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond

by Hugh Ryan

Strange People on the Hill

How Extremism Tore Apart a Small American Town

by Michael Edison Hayden

The Trillion Dollar War Machine

How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us At Home

by William Hartung & Ben Freeman

Fantasy Island

Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico

by Ed Morales

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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.

Nick Turse

Type Media Center Fellow

Rozina Ali

Type Media Center Fellow

Helen Ouyang

Abelin-Bevier Fellow

Matthieu Aikins

Type Media Center Fellow

Josie Duffy Rice

Type Media Center Fellow

Rebecca Solnit

Puffin Foundation Fellow