Background
Nene Claire King was born in March 1943 in Melbourne to a Jewish family.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Nene King
Edit ProfileEducation
She was educated in Melbourne at the Methodist Ladies" College.
Career
She is the former editor of some of Australia"s most famous women"s magazines, including Woman"s Day, New Idea and Women"s Weekly. Her parents were Lionel Louvain King (died 1996) and Emilie Rebecca Myers (1916-2008) and she has an older brother, Peter (Snowy). King started 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 newspaper. Working as chief reporter on the women"s magazine New Idea awakened her love of magazines which eventually drew her into being the editors
King is credited with turning the circulation of Woman"s Day around. When she took the helm as editor, the magazine"s circulation was 680,000 and within a short time, the circulation had boosted to over a million, outselling the top magazine, New Idea.
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.
Membership
King eventually became the first female board member of Kerry Packer"s company Publishing and Broadcasting Limited.
