Owen's career includes stints as a radio and television columnist at the Albany-focused Times Union in Albany, New York.
He's also had articles published in Portland Monthly, Pittsburgh Magazine, Shady Avenue, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington).
While at the Times-Dispatch, Owen helped create "inSync," a section for teen readers that preceded the boy band of the same name (but slightly different spelling).
Owen also wrote Gen X TV: The Brady Bunch to Melrose Place (Syracuse University Press, March 1997).
He was featured in the 2016 National Geographic Channel series "Generation X" as one of the experts interviewed on Gen X.