{{Short description|Australian journalist (1895–1964)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2025}} '''Constance (Connie) Robertson''' {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|OBE}} (1895–1964) was an Australian journalist best known as women's editor of the ''Sydney Morning Herald''.
==Early life and career== Robertson was born on 16 October 1895 in Sydney. She was the eldest of six children of Constance (née Ivingsbelle) and Alfred George Stephens, literary critic for ''The Bulletin''.<ref name=Sun1928>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222174045 |title=Married to-day |newspaper=The Sun |issue=5526 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=25 July 1928 |access-date=6 December 2025 |page=11 (Final extra) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> She was educated by her father and then worked on ''The Bookfellow'' from 1911–1916. In 1917 she moved to the Sydney ''Sun''.
Robertson edited ''Woman's Budget'' from 1930 to 1936, before becoming editor of the women's supplement of the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' (and later of the ''Sunday Herald'' and the ''Sun-Herald'').<ref name=Horne>{{Citation |last=Horne |first=Julia |title=Robertson, Constance (Connie) (1895–1964) |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/robertson-constance-connie-8231 |work=adb.anu.edu.au |access-date=26 June 2023 |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en}}</ref>
She was an accredited war correspondent in World War II.<ref name=Clarke>{{Cite web |last=Clarke |first=Patricia |title=Constance Robertson |url=https://halloffame.melbournepressclub.com/article/constance-robertson |website=Australian Media Hall of Fame}}</ref> She continued to write a weekly column for the ''Herald'' after she retired in April 1962.<ref name=Horne />
== Personal life and death ==
She married journalist William Kinnear Robertson on 25 July 1928.<ref name=Horne /><ref name=Sun1928 /> Robertson died of cerebrovascular disease at North Sydney on 3 March 1964. Her husband predeceased her a few days earlier. She was survived by her daughter Margot.<ref name=Horne />
== Recognition and legacy ==
Robertson was appointed an Officer of the British Empire in 1955.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mrs Constance Robertson |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1108049 |access-date=26 June 2023 |website=Australian Honours Search Facility}}</ref> She has been inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame.<ref name=Clarke /> Her papers are held at the State Library of NSW.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Constance Robertson papers, 1915-1963 |url=https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yezdk529 |access-date=26 June 2023 |website=Collection - State Library of NSW |language=en}}</ref>
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==Further reading==
* {{Cite book |last1=Lawson |first=Valerie |title=Connie sweetheart : the story of Connie Robertson |publication-date=1990 |publisher=Heinemann Australia |isbn=978-0-85561-353-2}} * {{Cite book |last1=Souter |first=Gavin |title=Company of Heralds : a century and a half of Australian publishing by John Fairfax Limited and its predecessors, 1831–1981 |publication-date=1981 |publisher=Melbourne University Press |isbn=978-0-522-84218-0}}
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