About me
Cassie Owens is a journalist and filmmaker from Philadelphia. In 2019, at the Inquirer, she co-produced Legendary, a short-film that won the Shine award at the BlackStar Film Festival. In her work as an organizer at Free Press, organized nearly two dozen journalists and community advocates to co-author a new code of ethics for community journalism. She founded the Philadelphia Safer Journalism Project, which she now leads with community partners. She is now the inaugural editor-in-chief and executive director of the Philly Download, a news startup that serves Black Philadelphians between 18-45. Owens loves her people, cultural history, gardening and ancestral recipes.
