Jenni McManus, a co-founder of the award-winning newspaper The Independent Business Weekly, has more than 40 years’ experience in journalism. She began her career in private radio, moving to NBR in the late 1980s after a brief stint at ATI (now known as AUT) teaching the six-month journalism course. She has also worked in television as part of TV3’s The Ralston Group and as a business commentator on TVNZ’s Breakfast program. Since 2019 she has been the editor of LawNews, a website owned by The Law Association of New Zealand (formerly known as the Auckland District Law Society, or ADLS).
She has won more than 20 journalism awards, including Senior Reporter of the Year at the Qantas awards in 1997, and the Citibank award. She is a published author (In the Arena and A Woman’s Place), and a trained yoga teacher and yoga therapist.
