Featured Speaker: Simon Owens - thirst for messages 1 of 2 - thirst DC

Asked what he does for a living, Simon Owens often responds that he's a journalist who subsidizes his journalism with PR. As Director of PR of JESS3, he has driven millions of pageviews to client projects, securing thousands of media hits from major news outlets. As a journalist, his writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Harvard's Nieman Lab, Forbes, PBS' MediaShift, and The Next Web. He contends that his experience as a reporter constantly being bothered by PR flaks has made him slightly less annoying when he's pitching other journalists.

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