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American journalist and newspaper editor (born 1971)
Rob Owen
(born 1971)
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is an American
journalist
and
newspaper editor
.
Career
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Columnist and editor
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Owen's career includes stints as a radio and television columnist at the
Albany-focused
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 to 2010, he was TV editor and critic for the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, and from 2010 to 2020, he wrote for the paper and its website as TV writer/critic. He is currently with the
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
and
Trib Total Media
as TV writer/columnist.
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In addition, he freelances regularly for
Variety
(Hollywood, California),
The Seattle Times
(Seattle, Washington),
The Kansas City Star
(Kansas City, Missouri) and the
Richmond Times-Dispatch
(Richmond, Virginia). He's also had articles published in
Portland Monthly
,
Pittsburgh Magazine
,
Shady Avenue
,
The Philadelphia Inquirer
and
The Spokesman-Review
(Spokane, Washington). He is a past president of the
Television Critics Association
and currently TCA's hotel coordinator.
Volunteer work
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Other works
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While at the
Times-Dispatch
, Owen helped create "inSync," a section for teen readers that preceded the boy band of the same name (but slightly different spelling).
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. He was featured in the 2016
National Geographic Channel
series "Generation X" as one of the experts interviewed on Gen X. He was also a talking head TV expert in
CNN's
"The Nineties" (2017).
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