The story that nearly wasn’t written

Tim Burrowes

July 26, 2009 5:35

“This jaw-dropping fall from grace involves nothing more than curiosity, luck, and natural persistence driven by the dead-obvious realisation that the newspaper, of which I was editor at the time, had stumbled across something extraordinary.”

Ex Telegraph editor David Penberthy on the fall of Marcus Einfeld

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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.

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