Ita Buttrose

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Ita Clare Buttrose (born 17 January 1942) is an Australian journalist, former magazine/ newspaper editor, publishing executive, television network executive chairperson and television and radio personality, advocate, author. Historian, Dr Lauren Samuelsson describes Buttrose as 'most powerful woman in Australian media and a household name' from 1972 to 1999. In 1972, Buttrose was the founding editor of Cleo, a high-circulation magazine aimed at women aged 20 to 40 that was frank about sexuality (introduced liberal feminist ideas and, in its infancy, featured nude male centrefolds) and, later, the editor of the more conventional the Australian Women's Weekly. She was the youngest person to be appointed editor of The Weekly, which was then, per capita, the largest-selling magazine in the world. Buttrose was the first woman to be editor in chief for a major Australian metropolitan newspaper, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph (1981 - 1984) and to join the News Limited board, chaired...

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