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Type Media Center, Inc.

New York, New York

Grants

2023 (2 years)
$325,000

Type Media Center is a nonprofit organization that supports journalism and nonfiction writing through book publishing, fellowship programs, and The Nation magazine. Type Media Center operates Type Investigations, an investigative newsroom that produces impactful accountability reporting by supporting independent journalists at every stage of their career through fellowships and by partnering with local newsrooms to produce investigative work. It provides financial and editorial support to its reporters, and publishes their investigations in partnership with a wide range of multimedia news outlets. This award provides flexible support for Type Investigations, and the outcomes of this grant will be a more robust set of investigative reporting projects created in the public interest at the local, national, and international level.

2021 (2 years)
$300,000

Type Media Center (formerly known as the Nation Institute) is a nonprofit organization with the mission to support journalism and nonfiction writing that challenges injustices and contributes to a more equitable society. Type Media Center operates Type Investigations, an investigative newsroom that produces impactful accountability reporting by supporting early, mid- and late-career independent reporters through fellowships and by partnering with local newsrooms to produce investigative work. It provides financial and editorial support to its reporters, and publishes their investigations in partnership with a wide range of multimedia news outlets. This award provides flexible support for Type Investigations, and the outcomes of this grant will be a more robust set of investigative reporting projects created in the public interest at the local, national, and international level.

2016 (5 years)
$750,000

The Nation Institute is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to strengthening the independent press and advancing social justice. The Investigative Fund is housed at the Nation Institute, where it runs a fellows program that supports six to ten journalists from diverse backgrounds with financial and editorial support, allowing them to pursue time-consuming investigations into underreported social issues, and to cultivate deep subject matter expertise. In addition to these fellowships, the Investigative Fund regularly works with a network of freelance reporters to commissions new investigations, with an emphasis on human rights, civil rights, economic inequality, and corporate and government accountability. The work of the Investigative Fund contributes significantly to diversifying the field of investigative reporters; facilitates in-depth coverage of critical issues that would otherwise go unreported; and provides freelance reporters with strong editorial guidance and placement of their stories in the media outlets where they will have the greatest impact. Recent investigations have explored the temporary work industry, and the conditions of immigrant detention centers. The Investigative Fund co-publishes this work with a wide variety of nonprofit and commercial media partners that include The Intercept, Wired, and Huffington Post. 

2014 (2 years)
$150,000

The Nation Institute is a nonprofit news organization that houses the Investigative Fund, which works with freelance reporters and Investigative Fund Fellows to produce in-depth reports that are co-published with a wide variety of nonprofit and commercial news publications and broadcasters. The Investigative Fund commissions and supports investigative stories with the potential for social impact, with an emphasis on human rights, civil rights, economic inequality and corporate and government accountability. The Fund produces approximately 70 original investigations each year, which are published by dozens of public, independent, legacy and commercial print, online, and broadcast media partners.

1999 (2 years)
$118,000

To establish a Peace Fellowship (over two years).

1992 (1 year)
$25,000

To support travel expenses for participants of the international conference "Investigative Journalism after the Cold War: Topics, Methods, Ethics."