Acel Moore and the legacy of The Inquirer's Career Development Workshop

Thirty years ago, Acel Moore found a willing partner in his newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, to create a program to give high school students a taste of being a reporter. He had been a reporter for more than 20 years and a columnist for nearly five, and had seen the paucity of journalists of color in the nation's newsrooms, which also meant the daily news report did not adequately cover many communities.