Media Bites finds its place

Tim Burrowes

June 26, 2009 8:10

It’s always fun taking potshots at Sydney’s Daily Telegraph (and it is an easy target…), but its worth flagging up one newish effort that I think has been going well.

They quietly launched a Friday media column a few weeks back, edited by Holly Byrnes.

And although Media Bites has not yet broken anything major, it’s usually been worth a read.

But today I noticed – just as I do with the Fin and The Australian’s media sections on a Monday and the SMH’s on a Thursday – that I automatically went to the Tele first this morning, and straight to that column. For me at least, it’s starting to stick.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.