Diane Kenwood, editor of Woman’s Weekly, the most successful and highest selling weekly magazine in the mature mainstream women’s market will launch the Editors’ Forum on Wednesday 4 March 2015.
The Editors’ Forum is the association of magazine editors in Ireland. It is an association exclusively for magazine and website editors. Membership is open to serving editors, editors-in-chief, editorial directors and content directors of magazines in print or online published in Ireland. It is also open to those with the equivalent senior title at the discretion of the Magazines Ireland Editors’ Forum Committee.
As well as serving the needs of editors who have decision making authority, the forum will help to mentor and support journalists who aspire to taking on more senior editorial roles.
Members will be entitled to attend regular functions and editorial forums and to apply for a magazines Ireland Press Card. The majority of the events will be a mixture of forums, networking events and training courses. All applications for membership are at the discretion of the committee.
The launch will take place at 12 midday on Wednesday 4 March 2015 at the Lord Mayor’s Residence, The Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2. Attendance is by invitation only.
Grace Aungier, CEO, Magazines Ireland said, “The role of an editor can be a lonely one and we hope that through the Forum, editors will come together to learn, share and support one another”.
More About the Editors’ Forum
If you would like to hear more about hear all the details about this exciting new development from Magazines Ireland please contact Grace Aungier, CEO, Magazines Ireland Magazines Ireland, 25 Denzille Lane, Dublin 2. Tel: 01 667 557 or grace@magazinesireland.ie
More About Diane Kenwood
Diane Kenwood is editor of Woman’s Weekly, the most successful and highest selling weekly magazine in the mature mainstream women’s market. Diane began her career in television and radio, moving from production to presenting – she has fronted programmes on BBCs 1 and 2, Sky News and Channel 4, and hosted her own two hour daily radio. She started working in magazines at the BBC and was offered her first job as features editor on Having a Baby. A stint on Good Housekeeping preceded her first editor’s role on the Marks & Spencer magazine. After five years as editor, Diane launched a new magazine aimed at the 50+ market, and edited Heyday until it moved to a rival publisher. Following a brief tenure at the Guardian working on the development of a Business to Business magazine, Diane was invited to edit IPC’s flagship mature mainstream weekly title.
