Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home. I'm Brian McCullough.

Simon Owens is a journalist who in his writing, podcasting, and newsletters covers the whole gamut of

digital media from the creator side to the publisher side, from the journalist side to the

business side. So today we've got a great wide-ranging conversation about everything from

newsletters to YouTube to paywalls to podcasts and do in fact check out Simon's great podcast, the business of content because, as we say on this

episode, we recorded these as a back-to-back twofer.

I was on his show and he was on this one.

Please enjoy Simon Owens.

Basically, Simon, you cover, I think,

what you call the business site of content,

the business of content.

Yeah, my tagline is how people create,

distribute, and monetize their digital content.

So in your mind is that from the creators or journalist standpoint or is it everything?

How do you describe the beat?

Is it just like even publishers at the whole the whole shebang?

Yeah, I mean it's really I'm really fascinated and like what how you know really innovative ways that people are going about creating

content whether that's articles videos podcast newsletters or

whatever like what went into the thinking of creating did what good what goes into

every day what that person into every day,

what that person does every day

to put out this amazing content.

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