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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.

Online Atrocity Database Exposed Thousands Of Vulnerable People In Congo

Type Media Center fellow Nick Turse covers the fallout from a data exposure incident involving the Kivu Security Tracker (KST), a project aimed at documenting human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nick Turse for The Intercept.

‘He Lost Our Votes’: How Biden’s Israel Policy Is Costing Him Dearly in This Critical Swing State

Type Media Center fellow Tanvi Misra reports on the influence of the Israel/Hamas conflict on Michigan voters’ outlook for next year’s presidential election. Tanvi Misra for Politico.

Civilian Harm: Secret Pentagon Investigation Found No One at Fault in Drone Strike That Killed Woman and 4-Year-Old

Type Media Center fellow Nick Turse covers the lack of accountability taken by the U.S. military for the deaths of Luul Dahir Mohamed and her 4-year-old daughter Mariam Shilow Muse, who were killed by a 2018 U.S. drone strike in Somalia. Nick Turse for The Intercept.

Does A.I. Lead Police to Ignore Contradictory Evidence?

Type Media Center fellow Eyal Press discusses the controversial use of A.I. facial recognition technology in law enforcement. Eyal Press for The New Yorker.

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Type Investigations

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

Report Finds Arizona 911 Dispatchers Fail to Help Lost Migrants

Pima County emergency services engage in ‘unconstitutional and abusive practices’ on the border, a humanitarian group says.

Tanvi Misra High Country News November 14, 2023

The Truth Behind The Experimental Therapy That Kids Say Starts With ‘Legalized Kidnapping’

Hundreds of children across the U.S. have been sent into controversial treatment programs where they’re cut off from the parent they trust and forced to live with the one they fear.

Olivia Gentile Insider November 6, 2023

The Climate Crisis Is Pushing Washington’s Prisons to the Brink

Why not let people out?

Sarah Sax & Christopher Blackwell High Country News November 1, 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.

Bring the Noise

The Jürgen Klopp Story

by Raphael Honigstein

The Women’s House of Detention

A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison (Paperback)

by Hugh Ryan

War Against All Puerto Ricans

Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

by Nelson A Denis

More Perfect Reunion

Race, Integration, and the Future of America

by Calvin Baker

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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.

Adam Federman

Type Investigations Fellow

E. Tammy Kim

Type Media Center Fellow

Matthieu Aikins

Type Media Center Fellow

Justine van der Leun

Type Media Center Fellow

Noy Thrupkaew

Type Investigations Fellow

Anjali Kamat

Type Media Center Fellow

Rozina Ali

Type Media Center Fellow

Elie Mystal

Alfred Knobler Fellow

Tom Engelhardt

Type Media Center 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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Editors Institute

The Editors Institute is a new program that trains journalists from underrepresented backgrounds to become investigative editors. Its goals are threefold: To help emerging editors better compete for jobs as leaders in their newsrooms; help news outlets find highly skilled investigative editors at a time when such candidates are scarce; and help diversify a traditionally white, male- dominated field.

Online Atrocity Database Exposed Thousands Of Vulnerable People In Congo

‘He Lost Our Votes’: How Biden’s Israel Policy Is Costing Him Dearly in This Critical Swing State

Civilian Harm: Secret Pentagon Investigation Found No One at Fault in Drone Strike That Killed Woman and 4-Year-Old

Does A.I. Lead Police to Ignore Contradictory Evidence?

Type Investigations

Report Finds Arizona 911 Dispatchers Fail to Help Lost Migrants

The Truth Behind The Experimental Therapy That Kids Say Starts With ‘Legalized Kidnapping’

The Climate Crisis Is Pushing Washington’s Prisons to the Brink

Ida B. Wells

Bold Type Books

Bring the Noise

The Women’s House of Detention

War Against All Puerto Ricans

More Perfect Reunion

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

Editors Institute

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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