Richard Matern
Class of 2014
Richard Matern is the Senior Manager of Research at Daily Bread Food Bank in Toronto. At Daily Bread he is responsible for the development and implementation of a research program to support its government relations strategy. Matern and his colleagues at Daily Bread have produced a number of reports on poverty and hunger in the GTA, including Daily Bread Food Bank’s annual Who’s Hungryreport. Matern was also part of the research team that developed the Ontario Deprivation Index, the first poverty measure of its kind in Canada. In addition to his work at Daily Bread, Matern was a case author and research assistant for the first MBA-level Canadian Business History course at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
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Turning experts into journalists, with a ‘big cognitive shift’
A journalist’s instinct – making social policy newsworthy
How journalism is turning emotional and what that might mean for news
The changing face of poverty in Canada
Food banks face crunch as donations shrink
