He has worked at The New York Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer. A two-time winner of The New York Times Publisher’s Award, Rich‘s reporting has been honored with awards from numerous organizations including the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, the Press Club of Long Island, the New York Association of Black Journalists and the Education Writers Association. Rich is currently pursuing a doctorate at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, where he holds a Scripps Howard Doctoral Fellowship. He has served as an adjunct professor at Merrill and his research interests include diversity in the media, journalism history and the economics of digital media.