
About Simon Owens
About Simon Owens
Simon Owens is a leading journalist who focuses on the modern media industry and creator economy. For his newsletter and podcast, The Business of Content, he has interviewed over 1,000 media entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses.
Simon got his start as a newspaper reporter covering government and schools in Virginia. He later held editor positions at PBS’ Mediashift and US News & World Report. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Politico, Scientific American, Forbes, Harvard’s Nieman Lab, The Next Web, Daily Dot, PBS. org, and US News & World Report.