My Net Worth: Sinead Boucher, Stuff's executive chair and owner

My Net Worth: Sinead Boucher, Stuff's executive chair and owner
Sinead Boucher says she's never stopped thinking about what might make a good story. (Image: Supplied)
Daniel Dunkley
Sinead Boucher stunned the New Zealand media scene in 2020 when, while chief executive of newspaper publisher Stuff, she bought the company for just $1 from Australia’s Nine Entertainment.A University of Canterbury law school dropout, Boucher studied at Aoraki Journalism School in Timaru, where she met her husband, Mark. She went on to notch up decades of experience as a journalist, working in her hometown of Christchurch for The Press newspaper and in London for the Financial Times. A champion of NZ’s fourth estate, she became...

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