Paco Alvarez

1 week ago | typemediacenter.org | Paco Alvarez

Type Media Center fellow Matthieu Aikins was part of the New York Times team, which included Azam Ahmed and Christina Goldbaum, that won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for an “authoritative examination of how the United States sowed the seeds of its own failure in Afghanistan, primarily by supporting murderous militia that drove civilians to the Taliban.” Aikins previously won a Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting as part of a New York Times team “for courageous and...

2 weeks ago | entreletras.eu | Rafael Simancas |Paco Alvarez

Llama la atención la cantidad y, sobre todo, la identidad de algunos de los protagonistas de homenajes al Papa Francisco durante estos días. Porque los valores esgrimidos y los hechos contrastados de muchos de ellos contradicen vivamente la trayectoria humanista de Bergoglio. Pero esta realidad flagrante no les ha privado de pronunciar palabras aparentemente cargadas de profundo sentimiento, de publicar fotografías supuestamente cómplices e, incluso, de asistir enlutados a su funeral.

2 weeks ago | entreletras.eu | Nunci de León |Paco Alvarez

‘The End’, la nueva y esperada película del director Joshua Oppenheimer, se estrena en cines el próximo 25 de abril. ‘The End’ es un musical apocalíptico protagonizado por Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon y George MacKay, que tuvo su première europea en la pasada edición del Festival de San Sebastián y también se pudo ver en el TIFF – Toronto International Film Festival.

1 month ago | typemediacenter.org | Paco Alvarez

Type Media Center is pleased to announce Kica Matos,  President of the National Immigration Law Center and the Immigrant Justice Fund, as the recipient of the Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship. The Puffin Foundation and Type Media Center are the mutual sponsors of the award, which is given annually to an individual or organization who has challenged the status quo through distinctive, courageous, imaginative, and socially responsible work of significance.

1 month ago | typemediacenter.org | Paco Alvarez

For The New York Times, Abelin-Bevier Fellow Helen Ouyang examines how the Federal Aviation Administration’s stringent requirements concerning mental health treatment puts pressure on pilots to not seek treatment. Ouyang interviewed several pilots who either knew of colleagues who had hidden medical conditions from the FAA or who admitted to hiding conditions themselves for fear of being grounded. Refusing to disclose mental health problems or receive treatment can have dangerous consequences.