She mentioned that although she was dating, Ita was not into long-term relationship and self-claims that it would be astonishing if she married again. Ita was born in the heart of Australia in Sydney.
She was born on 17 January and named after her maternal grandmother, Ita Clare Rodgers. Ita was raised in a Catholic environment by her parents. Inspired by her father, she decided to be a journalist and pursue journalism as a career when she was just at the age of She has a long history of her success in the journalism as a career.
In , she became the first woman to edit a major Australian metropolitan newspaper after being hired as the editor in chief of the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph.
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He was working there when my mum met my father — as Dad's father also worked in the same business. Ita Buttrose. Credit: Grant Matthews. Grandpa had Cherry Ripe bars to hand to my older brothers [Julian and Will] and me as we rushed up the street to greet them. He never said much, but was very kind. My dad Charles was ever-present. He taught me to swim, was a true authoritarian figure, liked to sing and had a great tenor voice.
Dad left school at 14 because his father had shot through and left his mother with seven children. He was the eldest child. He started work as a proofreader, became a war correspondent and worked his way up to being an editor of a newspaper [the now-defunct Daily Mirror in Sydney]. Mum [Clare] was a talented pianist and met Dad in her late 20s.
She was going out with the conductor Joseph Post at the time. He had to work one night and said to my dad, "Could you keep an eye on my girlfriend, Clare? He didn't meet me until I was six months old. He'd always wear a white tuxedo for dinner and Mum always had a nice dress on. Ita Buttrose was a spectacularly successful and admired journalist who shaped the conversation of Australian women during a long career in newspapers, magazines, television and radio.
She launched Cleo , an edgy magazine that gave women sexual advice and male nude centrefolds. In she became the first female editor-in-chief of an Australian metropolitan daily newspaper when Rupert Murdoch appointed her to the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph.
Ita Buttrose has been a formidable worker for several charities. ITA Buttrose is the most celebrated female journalist in Australian history. Equally impressive - some would say more so - is the fact she is the only journalist to have a rock band Cold Chisel name a song after her. She has blazed a trail from newspapers to magazines to television. She's written books, speeches, launched eponymous products and received every award imaginable.
Success and Ita are synonymous. Ask anyone who they think of when they hear the name Ita and they think only of Ita Clare Buttrose. Back in , she became the very first female to edit a big urban paper after getting hired because the editor in chief of the Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Telegraph. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Related Articles. November 15, January 23, September 2,
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