Metro columnist up for journalism award

Metro columnist up for journalism award
Courtesy of Ernest Owens

Metro’s own columnist Ernest Owens has been nominated for an award from Philadelphia’s Pen & Pencil Club.

Owens isnominated for the Pen & Pencil Club’s Best Multimedia Journalist of 2015.

Owens works asareporter, Metro’scolumnist behind “The Ernest Opinion”and as host of hisPhillyCAM show, “Ernestly Speaking.”

To vote for Multimedia Journalist and in other categories, visit PenandPencil.org. Any one can vote.

Founded in 1892, the Pen & Pencil Club is the oldest continuously operating press club in America, and the second oldest in the world.

To read Owens’ columns for Metro, visit metro.us/ernest-owens.