biography
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Buttrose, Ita (Clare)
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1942– )
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| biography:
| Journalist, publisher, and broadcaster, born in Sydney, New South Wales, SE Australia. She was educated in Sydney, and joined Australian Consolidated Press at age 15 as a copy girl, going on to become editor of the Australian Women's Weekly, Australia's leading women's magazine. In 1981 she moved to News Limited as editor-in-chief of the Sunday Telegraph, becoming the first woman in Australia to edit either a daily or a Sunday paper. In 1988 she became editor of that paper's opposition, The Sun Herald, and by 1989 had started her own magazine, called Ita. She is chairman of the National Advisory Committee on AIDS, and one of the best-known women in Australia. |
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