Meet the top 10 media writers of the year on LinkedIn, ranked by engagement and more. Read — and follow — them now.
7. Simon Owens
Journalist and content marketer
- What he covers: How tech and media intersect. "Whether it's traditional media companies, podcasts, ebooks, or social platforms, I'm really interested in how people leverage online tools and communities at mass scale.”
- Favorite post: Silicon Valley once steered clear of original content. What changed?
- Why he likes that: “I think I identified a major paradigm shift in Silicon Valley, which used to avoid original content because it was expensive and inefficient to produce, and it's now being embraced because it can serve as a differentiating factor to draw in new users.”
- 2015's most-interesting story: How media companies are shifting their distribution strategies by posting native content to places like Facebook instant articles and Medium. Our way of thinking about where content should live is changing."