Graduate Student in Print Journalism
Matthew Richmond is a second year graduate student at USC's Annenberg School for Communication. He is interested in print, online and radio journalism. He began working for the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship as a project associate in August, 2009.
<p>"It is not often that you are aware of the revolution right while you are in the midst of it. But we are," says <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16616870">Alicia C. Shepard</a>, ombudsman at National Public Radio. And with those changes come a host of challenges for journalists working in a fast-changing climate, she recently told a group of broadcasters participating in <a href="/fellowships">The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships</a>.</p>
<p>The worldwide diabetes epidemic <a href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/352/11/1138">threatens</a> to make today's children the first generation to live shorter lives than their parents. </p>
<p>In December of 2005, an elementary school in Addyston, Ohio was closed permanently after officials at Ohio's Environmental Protection Agency found enough chemicals in the air to pose a risk of cancer 50 times higher than the regulators considered acceptable. </p>
