Ita Buttrose Bio, Age, Height,  Parents, Career, Salary, And  Net worth

Ita Buttrose Biography

Ita Buttrose is a prolific Australian journalist, a renowned businesswoman, an esteemed television personality as well as a proud author. She is famously known for her exquisite efforts as the founding editor of Cleo, which is a well-known magazine aiming the youthful women that are open to sexuality. However, she, later on, became the editor of The Australian Women’s Weekly, which was then the best-selling magazine in the world.

In addition, she was among the panelist on the Network Ten morning show Studio 10 from 2013 to 2018. In 2019, she was promoted as the new chairman of the profound Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), by Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Ita Buttrose Age

Ita Buttrose was born on the 17th of January 1942, in her native place of birth in Potts Point, New South Wales, Australia. In addition, she is currently  80 years of age as of 2022.

 Buttrose Height

Ita Buttrose has been very secretive with her personal affairs as of now.

Ita Buttrose Education

She was educationally inclined as her parents were very strict when it comes to education. However, Ita managed to attend a private school for a short time and later joined a public school to continue with her education due to the school fees in the private school were too expensive. Nevertheless, she graduated from the Dover Heights Home Science High School.

Ita Buttrose Parents

Ita Buttrose was born to Charles Oswald Buttrose and Clare Rodgers. The former is secretive when it comes to er occupation while the latter is a journalist and was at one point in his career as an editor of The Daily Mirro in Sydney. Buttrose’s parents were Catholics, hence she was raised in a strict catholic denomination.

Sadly, her dotting father died in 1999, as he was diagnosed with vascular dementia.

Buttrose Husband

Ita Buttrose is currently not married. However, she was married before to an architect Alasdair Macdonald with whom they were blessed with two children. Nonetheless, in 1975, they broke up and divorced in 1976 officially. In 1979, she met with Peter Sawyer and got married in 1979. Sadly, in 1980, they divorced. Nevertheless, they never had children with Sawyer.

Ita  Career

Ita Buttrose is a prolific Australian journalist, a renowned businesswoman, an esteemed television personality as well as a proud author. She is famously known for her exquisite efforts as the founding editor of Cleo, which is a well-known magazine aiming at youthful women that are open to sexuality. However, she, later on, became the editor of The Australian Women’s Weekly, which was then the best-selling magazine in the world.

Ita Buttrose has been quite successful in her career as a journalist. She got her passion for journalism when she was 11 years old. She was fascinated with the journalists of her younger age and promised herself she would be one at one point in her life. At one point she was appointed the women’s editor of The Telegraph at the young age of 23.

Moreover, she is also an award-winning journalist as she won the racetrack fashion contest run by a rival newspaper. In 1967, Buttrose worked in England where she was an employee on the British national magazine Woman’s Own. She, later on, moved back to Australi after being reinstated back to her previous job as a women’s editor at the Telegraph.

Buttrose was also an editor of the best-selling magazine Cleo, where she stayed there until 1975. Later on, she was appointed the editor of the Packers’ flagship magazine, The Australian Women’s Weekly between 1975 to 1976. Furthermore, she was the editor-in-chief of both publications from 1976 to 1978, prior to her appointment as the Publisher of Australian Consolidated Press Women’s Division from 1978 to 1981.

Afterward, she was given a job offer that she could not evade which made her move to Rupert Murdoch as the editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph as well as Sunday Telegraph in 1981. In 1980, she made frequent appearances on both radio and television.

From 1984, she was the chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on AIDS (NACAIDS) to 1988. On one occasion, she was featured in a national TV campaign that was founded to explain that donating blood at a blood bank did not pose a risk of transmitting AIDS. Which was quite helpful as it reduced the fear significantly.

 Buttrose Salary

Ita Buttrose has been very secretive with her annual pay scale as of now, 2022.

Buttrose Net Worth

Ita Buttrose has also not declared his net worth to the public as of now.

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Is Ita Married?

Ita Buttrose is currently not married. However, she was married before to an architect Alasdair Macdonald with whom they were blessed with two children. Nonetheless, in 1975, they broke up and divorced in 1976 officially. In 1979, she met with Peter Sawyer and got married in 1979. Sadly, in 1980, they divorced. Nevertheless, they never had children with Sawyer.

How old is Ita Buttrose?

Ita Buttrose was born on the 17th of January 1942, in her native place of birth in Potts Point, New South Wales, Australia. In addition, she is currently  80 years of age as of 2022.