{{Short description|New Zealand magazine editor (1920–2016)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=November 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Jean Wishart | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|OBE|size=100%}} | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Jean Boughton Wishart | birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|10|08|df=y}} | birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|11|16|1920|10|08|df=y}} | death_place = Auckland, New Zealand | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = | years_active = | era = | employer = | organization = | known_for = Editor of ''New Zealand Woman's Weekly'' (1952–1985) | boards = | relatives = | module = | signature = | signature_size = | signature_alt = }} '''Jean Boughton Wishart''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|OBE|size=85%}} (8 October 1920 – 16 November 2016) was a New Zealand journalist who was the editor of the ''New Zealand Woman's Weekly'' from 1952 until 1985.
==Biography== Born in the Auckland suburb of Remuera on 8 October 1920, Wishart was the daughter of Florence Olivia Marianne Wishart (née Cadman) and Robert Wishart.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brookes |first=Barbara |title=Wishart, Jean Boughton |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6w10/wishart-jean-boughton |access-date=1 April 2024 |website=Dictionary of New Zealand Biography |publisher=Ministry for Culture and Heritage}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19201012.2.2.3 | title=Births | date=12 October 1920 | work=New Zealand Herald | accessdate=25 September 2018 | page=1}}</ref> She was educated at Epsom Girls' Grammar School and joined the ''New Zealand Woman's Weekly'' as an office girl when she left school.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Traue |editor-first=J. E. |editor-link=Jim Traue |title=Who's Who in New Zealand |edition=11th |year=1978 |publisher=Reed |location=Wellington |isbn=0-589-01113-8 |page=291}}</ref><ref name="Herald obituary"/> She eventually rose to become the magazine's editor in 1952. During her 33-year tenure as editor—the longest in the magazine's history—circulation increased from about 100,000 to a peak of 250,000 in the early 1980s.<ref name="Herald obituary">{{cite news | url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11749315 | title=Legendary Woman's Weekly editor Jean Wishart dies aged 96 | date=16 November 2016 | work=New Zealand Herald | accessdate=19 November 2016 | first=Natalie | last=Akoorie}}</ref>
She served as a director of NZ News Ltd from 1975, and was a member of the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce.<ref name="Herald obituary"/>
In the 1985 Queen's Birthday Honours, Wishart was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to journalism.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=50155 |date=15 June 1985 |page=2 |supp=2}}</ref>
Wishart never married. She died in Auckland on 16 November 2016 at the age of 96.<ref name="Herald obituary"/>
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