Acel Moore

Acel Moore is Associate Editor Emeritus of The Inquirer. Moore, who retired in November 2005 after 43 years at The Inquirer, writes occasional columns for the paper's opinion pages. Most recently before his retirement, he was associate editor and director of recruiting, columnist and member of the Editorial Board of The Philadelphia Inquirer. A Pulitzer Prize winner and a Nieman Fellow, Acel Moore has been a staff member of The Inquirer since 1962, where he started as a copy boy. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977, and the Heywood Broun, National Headliner, and the Robert F. Kennedy awards, for a series on abuse of inmates at Farview State Hospital in Farview, Pa. In 1979 he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University.

Acel Moore is Associate Editor Emeritus of The Inquirer. Moore, who retired in November 2005 after 43 years at The Inquirer, writes occasional columns for the paper's opinion pages. Most recently before his retirement, he was associate editor and director of recruiting, columnist and member of the Editorial Board of The Philadelphia Inquirer. A Pulitzer Prize winner and a Nieman Fellow, Acel Moore has been a staff member of The Inquirer since 1962, where he started as a copy boy. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977, and the Heywood Broun, National Headliner, and the Robert F. Kennedy awards, for a series on abuse of inmates at Farview State Hospital in Farview, Pa. In 1979 he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. He is a former director of the American Society of Newspapers Editors. He is also a past president and founding member of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, and a founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists.