New Editorial Team For OZ Women's Weekly

16 February 2007

New Editorial Team For The Australian Women's Weekly (NZ edition)

ACP Magazines has today announced the appointment of a new editorial team to lead the New Zealand edition of The Australian Women's Weekly.

Heading the magazine will be Editor in Chief Megan McChesney, who holds the same position for ACP's flagship weekly magazine Woman's Day. She will be supported by Jenny Forsyth who takes up the newly created role of Associate Editor of The Australian Women's Weekly in March.

Jenny, 36, is an accomplished newspaper and magazine journalist with 16 years experience both in New Zealand and Britain. Most recently she has been news editor of New Zealand Women's Weekly, and prior to that she worked on the The Sunday Express, Sunday Mirror and The Sun newspapers. She has also worked for weekly British magazines, Heat and Closer having started her career as a reporter at the NZ Herald.

"We are delighted to have a journalist of Jenny's calibre join New Zealand's top selling monthly magazine,” says Louise Wright, ACP Magazine's Publishing Director - Mass Market Titles. "Her reputation for exceptional contacts and securing exclusive stories precedes her. There's no doubt Jenny and Megan McChesney will make a dynamic duo."

The Australian Women's Weekly is read by 640,000 readers each month (Source: Nielsen national readership survey January to December 2006) and its circulation sits at 85,014 copies

(Audit Bureau of Circulations January to June 2006).

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