Jennifer Sylvia "Jenny" Wheeler is an Auckland newspaper journalist, magazine editor, author and company director, born in Thames 21 December 1946.
[1] From 1997 with partner the late Tim Bickerstaff[2] she was a director of direct marketing companies Happy Families Ltd and Intenza NZ.
[3] Her Joys of Binge Reading podcast profiles popular authors in mystery, thriller, historical and romance genres.
Wheeler joined the New Zealand Herald as a general news reporter (1971–75), spent a year in Melbourne as assistant press secretary to the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne (1976), was a staff writer at the New Zealand Woman's Weekly (1978–84),[4][5] news reporter at the Auckland Star (1985), and then Auckland Star features editor (1986–87).
[15] In 1997, Wheeler began a health supplements direct marketing company Happy Families Ltd with her partner, former talk back radio host and sports journalist Tim Bickerstaff.