 He is credited with reviving "The Inquirer" and leading it from a second-place daily to one of the best regional newspapers in the country.Largely, he did it by recruiting young, talented journalists and giving them a free hand both in time and space to write compelling investigative stories under the tutelage of senior editors.Such nationally known writers as Mark Bowden ("Black Hawk Down") and Richard Ben Cramer ("") worked at "The Inquirer".