Nene King

Nene King

Nene King was editor of some of Australia's most famous women's magazines, including Woman's Day, New Idea and Women's Weekly.

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Early life

King was born in March 1943 in Melbourne to a Jewish family. Her parents were Lionel and Emily and she has an older brother, Peter (Snowy). She was educated in Melbourne at the Methodist Ladies' College.

Career

She started as a cadet in a publishing firm and was offered a role in front of the camera in a series of interviews. She froze on-screen, and it was decided that King would be better behind the scenes. After some work in Hong Kong, she came back to Australia and worked on the Sydney Morning Herald.

Working as Chief Reporter on the women's magazine New Idea awakened her love of magazines which eventually drew her into being the editor. King is credited with turning the circulation of Woman's Day around. When she took the helm as Editor, the magazine's circulation was 80,000 and within a short time, the circulation had boosted to over a million, outselling the top magazine, New Idea.

King eventually became the first female board member of Kerry Packer's Publishing and Broadcasting Limited.

Addiction

On the 12 June 2007 edition of Today Tonight on Australia's Channel 7, King revealed she is addicted to prescription medication and has recently been to rehab to cure addictions to illicit drugs.

Personal life

She was married to rock journalist and diver, Patrick Bowring for more than 20 years. Bowing died in 1996 in a diving accident, a month after King's father Lionel also died. Her mother Emily died in 2008.

Peter FitzSimons wrote her biography Nene King in 2002. King wrote an autobiography, entitled "Nene". She currently lives in Noosa, Queensland in Australia. THE one-time queen of Australian magazine publishing, Nene King, claims she is facing ruin after a disastrous falling out with associates is set to cost her more than $1 million.

King, 66, the former editor of Woman's Day and Australian Women's Weekly magazines, told The Sunday Telegraph that she faced losing her home to pay her debts.

Sources

Australian Story, ABC television.
"Hello, I'm Nene King and I'm a drug addict" article by Steve Dow.

THE one-time queen of Australian magazine publishing, Nene King, claims she is facing ruin after a disastrous falling out with associates is set to cost her more than $1 million.

King, 66, the former editor of Woman's Day and Australian Women's Weekly magazines, told The Sunday Telegraph that she faced losing her home to pay her debts.


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