Simon Owens is a longtime journalist, marketer, and PR professional. He currently publishers a newsletter, hosts a podcast and is a freelance journalist.
You can learn more about him at his Medium website.
Personal posts:
Publications
The Business of Content
The podcast about how publishers create, distribute, and monetize digital content.
You can check it out here.
He has created a podcast detailing how he plans to monetize the podcast.
He published a post about the lessons learned from producing 100 podcast episodes.
Simon Owens’s Tech And Media Newsletter
Simon first started this newsletter in October, 2014
You can read the archive here.
In February, 2020, he decided to offer a paid component of his newsletter. He explored this more at How I plan to monetize this newsletter. 6 months later, he ran an NPR-Style pledge drive to try to increase his followers.
He has been sharing his experiences in interviews and Medium posts.
- 4 lessons I’ve learned while running a paid newsletter
- The exact time commitment it takes to run a paid newsletter
- How Simon Owens Creates and Drives Sign Ups to his Tech & Media Newsletter
Features
Man cannot live by newsletter alone: the realities of going solo as a journalist