George Owens | gowens@syracuse.com

George Owens is a journalist and social media producer for syracuse.com | The Post-Standard and Advance Media New York. He has more than three decades of experience as a reporter, editor, page designer, photographer, web producer and social media producer. He currently assists in managing the social media channels for Syracuse.com and NYUP.com, with a special focus on high school sports, Syracuse University sports and the Buffalo Bills. He also curates email newsletters and writes on a wide range of topics. A native of Central New York, he is a graduate of Utica College of Syracuse University (now Utica University) and has taken graduate courses at Syracuse University. Prior to joining syracuse.com | The Post-Standard, he worked as a reporter and editor for USA Today, the Utica (N.Y.) Observer-Dispatch, the Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record and the Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal. You can follow him on Twitter at @georgehowens.