Following a post-graduate diploma in broadcast journalism from Cardiff University, early in his career, Owen presented the BBC Wales news programme Wales Today in the 1980s.
[2][3][1] He then moved to the commercial station HTV Wales to be one of the main anchors for the station's daily news programme Wales Tonight in the mid-1990s, before moving to sister channel HTV West in Bristol, in 1996.
Owen also worked at Channel Television based in Jersey and presented his own radio show on Orchard FM in Somerset.
Between 2001 and early 2006, he anchored Sky News and worked extensively for the BBC World Service.
Owen moved to Moscow in 2006 to work at RT (formerly Russia Today) as the English network's senior news anchor.