Education
Owen attended Howell"s School in Llandaff, Cardiff, and graduated from the Royal Holloway, University of London, in English.
Owen attended Howell"s School in Llandaff, Cardiff, and graduated from the Royal Holloway, University of London, in English.
Owen began her broadcasting career at British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Wales as a researcher, later progressing to a reporting and co-presenting role for a features programme. She joined HTV Wales in 1995 as a newsreader for regional opt-outs during GMTV, and between 1996 and 2007, she co-presented Wales Tonight, the regional news programme on Independent Television Wales, broadcast from Cardiff. Owen presented on the now defunct Independent Television News Channel, and was also seen anchoring the main Independent Television News: Lunchtime News, Evening News and the Weekend News.
Owen signed off from her last edition of Wales Tonight on Friday 19 October 2007.
In a surprise but personally motivated move, from Monday 5 November 2007 Owen began presenting the British Broadcasting Corporation Wales evening news programme British Broadcasting Corporation Wales Today, replacing long-standing presenter Sara Edwards. Owen is also one of eight celebrities chosen to participate in an intense week learning Welsh in an eco-friendly chic campsite in Pembrokeshire in the series cariadiaith:love4language shown on S4C in May 2012.