Rob Owen (journalist)

Rob Owen (born 1971)[1] is an American journalist and newspaper editor.

Career

Columnist and editor

Owen's career included stints as a radio and television columnist at the Albany Times Union in Albany, New York. He was also a features writer at the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Richmond, Virginia. His articles also appeared in the now-defunct NetGuide magazine.

From 1998-2010 he was TV editor and critic for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He is currently TV writer/critic for the Post-Gazette and his stories movie on the Tribune News Service wire. In addition, he freelances regularly for The Seattle Times (Seattle, Washington), the Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) and Variety (Hollywood, California). He is a past president of the Television Critics Association.

Other works

While at the Times-Dispatch, Owen helped create "inSync," a section for teen readers.

Owen also wrote Gen X TV: The Brady Bunch to Melrose Place (Syracuse University Press, March 1997). The nonfiction book talks about shows that members of the Generation X age group grew up watching and the shows they watched in the 1990s.

References

  1. "Owen, Rob, 1971-....". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 1 July 2013.

External links

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