In meetings, coworkers sometimes dismissed stories about the Black community as not interesting or newsworthy. Through it all, Mosley was frequently the only Black person in the newsroom, which left her feeling scrutinized, "like I had to be better than everyone else, or I had to make sure that I was twice as good, because if I make one mistake, everyone, their eyes are on me," she says. She worked her way up to became a producer for the morning and afternoon shows in Columbia, Mo., then branched out as a TV reporter in several cities, including Seattle and Louisville. But in her senior year of college, she landed a job as a teleprompter operator at the local ABC affiliate, which launched her into TV news. Mosley grew up in Detroit in the 1980s and '90s, and attended the University of Missouri with the intention of becoming a print journalist. "And because of how he exposed me to news, I then became interested in it. He had the radio on in his home all the time," Mosley says.
It's a passion she traces back to her grandfather. For as long as she can remember, Tonya Mosley, the new co-host of Fresh Air, always wanted to be a journalist.
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