The ''New Zealand Woman's Weekly'' is a weekly
New Zealand
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women's magazine
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published by
Are Media.
, it had a circulation of 82,040, third by paid sales after ''TV Guide'' and ''New Zealand Woman's Day''.
History
On 8 December 1932, journalists Otto Williams and
Audrey Argall launched the magazine, with 7,000 copies on newsprint. Williams took the role of managing director, and Argall was the first editor.
Due to financial difficulties, they were forced to sell the magazine after three months. Ellen Melville ran the magazine for a few weeks, before the magazine's printer, F. S. Proctor, and his wife, took over. Early in 1933, solicitor Vernon Dyson bought it, an
his wife Hedda became the second editor At the end of the year it was sold again to Brett Print and Publishing Co., later New Zealand Newspapers, which also published the ''
Auckland Star
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''.
Hedda Dyson was retained as editor.
In the early 1980s, ''New Zealand Woman's Weekly''s circulation peaked at around 250,000, before the Australian magazines ''
Woman's Day
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'' and ''
New Idea'' entered the New Zealand market.
In 2007, the magazine celebrated its 75th anniversary with guest Prime Minister
Helen Clark
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.
In early April 2020, the
Bauer Media Group
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announced that it would be closing several of its New Zealand brands in response to the economic impact of the
COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand
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including the ''New Zealand Woman's Weekly''.
On 17 June 2020,
Mercury Capital
Mercury Capital is an Australian investment firm that owns a range of healthcare and media companies.
Assets
*Blue Star Group, acquired January 2013
*International Volunteer HQ, 80% shareholding acquired in November 2017
*Are Media, acquired i ...
purchased the ''New Zealand Woman's Weekly'' as part of its acquisition of Bauer Media's Australia and New Zealand assets.
On 17 July, Mercury Capital announced that it would resume publishing the ''Women's Weekly'' and other former Bauer publications. In late September 2020, Mercury Capital rebranded Bauer Media as
Are Media, which took over publication of the ''Woman's Weekly''.
Editors
* Audrey Argall, 1932–1933
*
Hedda Dyson
Elizabeth Geertruida Agatha Dyson ( Weersma, 15 January 1897 – 17 October 1951), known as Hedda Dyson, was a New Zealand journalist and magazine editor. She was born in Ginneken, Netherlands
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, 1933–1948
* Ola Rudman, 1948–1952
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Jean Wishart
Jean Boughton Wishart (8 October 1920 – 16 November 2016) was a New Zealand journalist who was the editor of the ''New Zealand Woman's Weekly'' from 1952 until 1985.
Biography
Born in the Auckland suburb of Remuera on 8 October 1920, Wishart ...
, 1952–1984
* Michal Louise McKay, 1984–1987
* Jenny Lynch, 1987 to 1994
* Sarah Kate Lynch, 1994–1996
* Wendyl Nissen, 1996–1997
* Rowan Dixon, 1997–2003
*
Nicky Pellegrino
Nicky Pellegrino (born 1964) is a novelist. She is an English-born New Zealander of Italian descent and lives and writes in Auckland, New Zealand. Her novels have been translated into 12 languages.
Early life
Pellegrino was born in Liverpool in ...
, 2003
* Sido Kitchin, 2006–2010
* Nicky Pellegrino (acting), 2010
* Sarah Stuart, 2010–2013
* Louise Wright 2013–2014
* Fiona Fraser 2014–2016
* Alice O'Connell 2016–2020
* Marilynn McLachlan 2020–present
See also
*
List of women's magazines
References
Further reading
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External links
New Zealand Woman's Weekly website
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1932 establishments in New Zealand
Magazines established in 1932
Women's magazines published in New Zealand
Weekly magazines published in New Zealand