Ms Rosemary McLeod, ONZM, of Wellington, for services to journalism and television
Rosemary McLeod has contributed to New Zealand media since the 1970s as a journalist, columnist, cartoonist and social historian. Her cartoons chronicled and interpreted the changing zeitgeist of New Zealand society.
Her investigative and long-form journalism for ‘North and South’ magazine saw her win five Qantas Feature Writer of the Year awards.
She is one of New Zealand’s first nationally published female cartoonists and the first woman to write a television sitcom, in addition to writing drama series.
She was a member of the Broadcasting Standards Authority and a Judge for the Newspaper Publishers’ Association awards and Movie Fest.
She published an award-winning history of New Zealand women’s textiles, ‘Thrift to Fantasy’, and novel, ‘A Girl Like I’. Ms McLeod is a columnist for Stuff and for Woman magazine.