Congratulations to Bernadette Courtney, the fifth New Zealand woman to edit a major metropolitan newspaper in New Zealand. Bernadette has been appointed the editor of The Dominion Post. She is the second woman to edit a Wellington daily, after Sue Carty at the former Evening Post. Previously there have been female editors of the Waikato Times and the now defunct Auckland Star.
The New Zealand Census of Women's Participation 2008 reported that there were only 4 women editing provincial daily newspapers or the weekend press. Bernadette breaks the drought for women in metropolitan dailies.