APN News & Media has named Sarah Stuart, 39, as editor of the New Zealand Woman's Weekly magazine.
Ms Stuart is currently the managing editor of APN's regional newspaper group, which includes seven daily newspapers and 45 community titles.
Ms Stuart spent a year with the New Zealand Woman's Weekly in the early 1990s before going overseas and working at the Daily Telegraph in Sydney.
Returning to New Zealand in 2000, she was features editor on the Sunday Star-Times before moving to the Herald on Sunday, where she became deputy editor.
She succeeds acting editor Nicky Pellegrino.