Grant Blackley, Russel Howcroft and Jane Huxley plus Google, Microsoft, Holden and Australia Post join Mumbrella360 line-up

Tim Burrowes

May 4, 2016 2:00

Blackley: Radio in a digital world

Huxley: Pandora

One of the broadcasting industry’s biggest players, Grant Blackley, and Australia’s most famous adman, Russel Howcroft, are among the speakers newly announced for this year’s Mumbrella360 program.

Blackley, CEO of Southern Cross Austereo, will be part of a high-calibre panel discussing the future of radio in the digital world. SCA owns radio networks Triple M and Hit Network.

Blackley will be joined by Pandora Internet Radio boss, Jane Huxley, US programmatic radio advertising expert Mike O’Neil, media agency Carat’s chief investment officer Ashley Earnshaw and Holden marketing director Geraldine Davys.

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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.