Program areas at Type Media Center
Type investigations is a home for ambitious independent investigative journalism. We tell deeply reported stories in partnership with print, broadcast, and digital Media outlets allowing us to bring our work to a wide range of audiences. Our team provides journalists with expert editorial guidance; rigorous fact-checking; research assistance; and funds to cover their travel, time, and other reporting costs. We are committed to reporting from the ground up, elevating stories from the communities most affected by wrongdoing. Our work enables groundbreaking journalism that would otherwise be impossible.
Bold Type books works to publish bold, ambitious books that tackle issues of public concern and challenge entrenched systems of power. We amplify the voices of writers and thinkers producing urgent, deeply researched journalism, creative nonfiction, cultural analysis and social history. Many of our titles have won significant awards including the national book award, and the kirkus prize.
The fellowship program provides emerging and established journalists with the support needed to write on complex issues. Our fellows form a unique community of thinkers and writers.
Internships: Type Media Center provides a research internship program for college students and recent graduates interested in investigative reporting, and publishing. The interns' primary responsibilities include fact checking and research.prizes: Type Media Center administers prizes that spotlight the invaluable achievements of others. Each prize is accompanied by a financial award, providing material support for future work. These prizes include the puffin prize for creative citizenship and the ridenhour prize, which allow us to publicly support acts of bravery from truth-tellers, journalists, educators, leading activists, and visionary artists. Tomdispatch: Type Media Center houses tomdispatch a website that features regular commentaries on u.s. foreign policy.