Owen Phillips Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

Thought Gang is an L.A.-based consultancy providing editorial, creative, marketing and communications services to tech and media companies. Our client and project list includes: FITE, PORTL, StoryFile, OnePlan, Joe Lewis Company and more. We have built newsrooms, redesigned magazines, created custom publications, consulted on naming, ghost written articles, managed events and publicity campaigns, and helped with crisis PR. Reimagined and relaunched the historic Los Angeles magazine Frontiers, preparing it for a successful sale in 2015.

Los Angeles, Ca

Relaunch of the men's quarterly—packed with a newsmaking mix of politics, culture, style and exclusive interviews that have earned the magazine accolades in outlets from WWD to The New York Times.

Los Angeles, Ca

Relaunched the dying trade daily to make it the number one entertainment industry publication. Our quality glossy weekly and robust online and mobile presence expanded the audience, and elevated the respect, for entertainment business news as a mainstream media force. THR became a mix of news, analysis, reviews and luxury lifestyle coverage and video content across movies, television, games, books, and tech. Built and directed the team in Los Angeles, New York as well as the global team. Directed branded content products and brand activations, launched The Hollywood Reporter Russia, ran film daily magazines and video lounges at Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Hong Kong, and Sundance. The reboot brought site traffic to 17 million monthly uniques, won two consecutive ASMEs for general excellence, launched TV properties and inspired other industry trades to copy our model. Too many industry awards for my writers and editors to list.

New York, Ny

Created The Wall Street Journal’s first glossy weekend lifestyle magazine and its websitefrom scratch with EIC Tina Gaudoin • Managed every aspect of the 1.6 millioncirculation magazine and website about men’s and women’s fashion, art, architecture,food, cars, design, and the business of luxury goods • Developed roster of writers, builtstaff, produced video, managed budget • Challenges: Extending the brand’s scope whilerespecting readers’ core values; introducing Journal reporters to magazine writing whilealso training magazine freelancers to meet the paper’s rigorous reporting standards

New York, Ny

Men’s Vogue was an ambitious style magazine and website that elevated the entire genre of Men's magazines, respecting that men could grow up and that magazines did not need to chase the "Lad Mag." • The influential magazine has been cited by J. Crew as a major inspiration of its resurgence • Built and managed the budget and staff • Edited across the book and website from features to video to coverlines to photographic portfolios • Involved in every aspect of the brand’s strategy including running research, consumer marketing and PR • Challenges: We were CondeNet’s first attempt at an individual site launch with Razorfish—a guinea pig status that provided many lessons on how to put a magazine on the web (and how not to)

New York, Ny

After working my way up from the mailroom, and through the revolutionary TinaBrown years, I had the opportunity to work with David Remnick and some of the besteditors and writers in the business to visualize their stories in illustration, cartoons,comic strips, photography, charts and maps • Cultivated new talent and worked withtop names in art (John Baldessari, Gary Panter, Wayne Thiebaud, Kerry James Marshall, Robert Colescott, Susan Rothenberg) and illustration (William Steig, Ralph Steadman, Richard Merkin) and graphic novels (Adrian Tomine, David Mazzucchelli, Seth and Art Spiegleman) • Curated the Goings on About Town section, including a series of self portraits from such names as Martin Kippinberger, Richard Prince, Beatrice Wood, Sally Mann and PJ Harvey • Author of Tables for Two restaurant reviews for ten years • Contributor to Talk of the Town and writer of art and photography gallery reviews