Journalism Ascendant
News is making a comeback. New models of journalism are rising at sites like BuzzFeed, Vox Media, and HuffPo. These sites have staffs approaching 500 people and make hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and are part of the trend of aggregating news readers to a few national sites. BuzzFeed makes nearly $200 million […]
Happy Earth Day, Except Idaho
Today NPR reports that less than half of teachers don’t teach climate change. Idaho stripped all mentions of human-caused climate change from statewide science guidelines this year, according to the New York Times. And five states block teachers from advocating climate change science. Scientists are working overtime to present research findings but their insights aren’t […]
Intel Unveils New Chips to Keep AMD, Custom Silicon at Bay
Intel, the largest maker of computer processors, announced a new range of server chips aimed at maintaining its dominance over one of the most profitable segments of the semiconductor industry. The company is introducing 90 different versions of the Xeon processor aiming to expand the type of work its most lucrative model can handle. At […]
Amazon to Offer Internet Access From Space
It sounds like an April Fool’s joke but it came three days late. Amazon is joining the race to provide broadband internet access around the globe via thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit, newly uncovered filings show. The effort, code-named Project Kuiper, follows up on last September’s mysterious reports that Amazon was planning a “big, […]
Seattle is as good as it’s going to get for Amazon.
Imagine if millennials preferred suburbs over cities. If so, Amazon could save billions by not negotiating with New York. Amazon could take freebies from Bellevue. Suburbanites wouldn’t protest corporate parks. Small town mayors wouldn’t propose head taxes. There would be ample parking and excellent public schools to attract the best middle-aged software developers. But this […]
Call For Papers Open for Cloud Summit
Please reply if you’d like to speak at the GeekWire Cloud Summit, June 5 in Bellevue. This is a free speaking opportunity. We produced the IT Cloud Computing Conference for three years, which was acquired by GeekWire in 2017 to help start the Cloud Summit. Now we are recruiting potential Cloud Summit speakers and sponsors. The […]
2019 Client Coverage
At Owen Media, we’re fortunate to work with some of the most influential technology companies in the world. Our media relations efforts focus on developing and telling stories that resonate with editors from print and Web-based outlets, across to television broadcast producers. Here is a list of articles we’ve secured for our clients since the […]
HQ2 and Seattle’s greatest achievement
A year ago Seattle received a slap in the face. The sting is gone, but homelessness and traffic remain. Is Amazon a bad actor? 45,000 employees in the city and $250 million in state tax revenues aren’t bad. And not just any employees but the best developers, program managers and creative professionals in the world. […]
David Marriott 1943-2018
You have probably heard of Dave Marriott. Even if you don’t know his name you know his work. He’s the guy who worked on the high profile crisis management cases in Seattle for 40 years: Alaska Airlines flight 261, Amanda Knox, Nordstrom union busting and maybe 100 others. Dave died last week and we […]
Seattle’s Transformation Myth
The Seattle Times published another hand-wringer recently about the death of old Seattle. About 1,000 people move to Seattle every week, pushing out the lumberjacks. The loss of Seattle is topic number one in cloud town. Traffic and homelessness are the leading concerns but there are plenty of gripes underneath those two. The argument misses the larger trend […]