The Business of Content with Simon Owens

My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/   Francesca Donner has had a somewhat unusual journalism career in that she never aspired to be a reporter or have her own bylines; instead, she started out her career as an editor and rose through the ranks of places like the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. But t

My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/   One day in the 1990s, Alan Jay received a surprising phone call at work from Jeff Bezos's assistant, who said the Amazon founder wanted to meet with him during an upcoming trip to the UK. That meeting would eventually lead to Amazon acquiring IMDB, the movie database Al

My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/   If Stuart Schuffman were in his early 20s today and building an independent media career, he'd probably be a TikTok influencer, but when he launched Broke Ass Stuart in the early 2000s, the natural medium was a print zine, one he printed out and stapled together himself

My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/   By the time Eric Coffie launched his YouTube channel in 2016, he was already one of the most successful federal government contractors in the US and employed an entire team that specialized in erecting steel buildings. The YouTube channel came out of his frustration of

My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/   The Coppell Chronicle isn't your average Substack newsletter. For one, the headlines are incredibly boring. Secondly, there's really no free version of it, since every issue that's sent out includes a paywall. But perhaps the most remarkable thing about it is that it's

My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/   If you ask Dave Anderson what he does for a living, he'll probably tell you he's retired, but that's not entirely true. While he did leave his last full-time job at Amazon back in 2020, he still writes a weekly newsletter on Substack about tech leadership. And even thou