Vote for Civic Hacker of the Year in the Philly News Awards

Center City has the country’s oldest reporters club, the Pen and Pencil, and for the second year it’s hosting the Philadelphia News Awards.

Voting is online and anyone can participate — not just members. This might not always be a thing to share here, but some familiar faces have found their way onto the ballot, and, no, we’re not talking about our own lead reporter Juliana Reyes — whom you should definitely support as Community Reporter of the Year.

Check out the Civic Hacker of the Year category.

• James Tyack, Unlock Philly
• Rob Kandel, formerly of the Inquirer
• Jim Smiley, Philadelphia Construction Permits by Neighborhood. (Full disclosure: Smiley is our contributing web editor, so, yes, we’re pulling for him.)
• Kathryn Killebrew, Cycle Philly
• Casey Thomas, various, including this NewsWorks crime data feature