About Us
The Tawny Frogmouth is an independent, family-run, print magazine for Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Founded on the belief that everyone in the community deserves a voice and has a story worth telling, we’re dedicated to collating and sharing local news, stories and updates across the Northern Beaches each month.
Our purpose
Our purpose is to foster the most positive and inspirational sense of community within Sydney’s Northern Beaches. There is a constant array of fascinating local news and stories to share, and our focus is to inform, entertain, and showcase the people lucky enough to call the Northern Beaches home.
We believe print media and comprehensive delivery is the most effective means of reaching our diverse and engaged community. The Tawny Frogmouth magazine is a network of meaningful connections and information between people, businesses and organisations of the Northern Beaches.
Who reads it?
People from Manly to Palm Beach of all ages, walks of life, and political persuasions read the Tawny Frogmouth because of its ongoing and unifying bias to celebrating the people and the region of Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Whether you’re five years old or over 100, a so-called lefty or righty or anything in between, if you call the Northern Beaches home, The Tawny Frogmouth is here for you.
*If you’ve got something to say or would like to submit a letter or picture for publication, we’d love to hear from you!
How does it stay free?
The Tawny Frogmouth is funded by advertisers who book page real estate to guarantee a direct pathway to their customers, the residents of the Northern Beaches.
Advertisers love the Tawny’s low ratio of ads to stories, ensuring their ads truly stand out. Each issue also dedicates a full page to the “Tawny Frogmouth Honour Roll,” where advertisers are listed and thanked for supporting the publication.
Readers use the Honour Roll as a valuable resource when making consumer decisions.
How do I get one?
Thanks to an army of 75 Tawny delivery foot soldiers, The Tawny Frogmouth is delivered directly to 47,500 residential letterboxes from Manly to Avalon, and another 2,500 go to pubs, clubs, cafes, libraries and highly frequented public places of all sorts from Manly to Palm Beach.
For those not lucky enough to live in paradise aka Sydney’s Northern Beaches, the Tawny’s website is home to all back issues where they can be read in PDF.
