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Rob Owen (journalist)

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

Career[edit]

Columnist and editor[edit]

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.[2] 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.

Post-Gazette television page

Owen's TV blog