Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is publisher and founder of the marketing industry publications Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-presents the weekly MediaLand show on ABC Radio National, and is also author of the book Media Unmade, the definitive story of Australia’s media during the disruptive decade of 2010 to 2020. Working on newspapers, magazines and online, Tim has been a journalist for more than 30 years and has written about the media for the last 20. He began his career on local and daily newspapers in the UK, before his first editorship on specialist B2B magazine Hospital Doctor. He was then editor of Media Week, followed by the Dubai-based launch editor of Campaign magazine, covering advertising and marketing issues throughout the Middle East. He was twice named editor of the Year at the British Society of Magazine Editors Awards. Tim came to Australia in 2006 to edit ad industry bible B&T Weekly before launching media and marketing industry publication Mumbrella in 2008. He remained with Mumbrella until the end of 2021. Under Tim’s editorship, Mumbrella was twice awarded website of the year at the Publishers Australia Awards, while Tim was named business journalist of the year. While Tim was curator of Mumbrella360, the event was twice named conference of the year at the Australian Event Awards. Unmade, which Tim started in August 2021, is behind industry conferences including REmade - Retail Media Unmade; Unlock, focused on the nighttime economy, and HumAIn - human creativity x AI. In 2022, Tim was named columnist of the year by the Publish Awards while Unmade was recognised for launch of the year. In 2024, Tim was again named columnist of the year, while his column ‘TV’s bloodiest day’ was named best single article of the year. In 2025, Tim once again became a co-owner of Mumbrella, in a deal which saw Unmade and Mumbrella come together within the new publishing company Mumbrella Media. Tim also co-presents MediaLand on ABC Radio National. He is aware that although biographies such as this are written in the third person, everybody knows he wrote it himself.

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