About Media Council
March, 2022
Front row left to right: Mary Major (former Executive Director), Raynor Asher (Chair), Liz Brown (former Council member)
Middle row: Jonathan MacKenzie, Reina Vaai, Katrina Bennett, Hank Schouten, Marie Shroff
Back row: Margot Chandler (Executive Director), Alison Thom, Jo Cribb, Tim Watkin, Richard Pamatatau
Absent: Rosemary Barraclough, Ben France-Hudson and Judi Jones
Raynor Asher
Independent Chair, QC, Retired Judge of the Court of Appeal, Auckland
Ben France-Hudson
Senior Lecturer in property law, University of Otago, Dunedin.
Katrina Bennett
Chief Reporter, NZME Wellington Bureau (Alternate industry member)
Rosemary Barraclough
Journalist, Auckland. Nominee of the Magazine Publishers' Association
Hank Schouten
Journalist Representative.
Jo Cribb
Independent Consultant, Wellington
Marie Shroff
Independent Consultant and Chair, Electoral Commission, Wellington
Jonathan MacKenzie
Editor of the Waikato region of Stuff, Hamilton
Richard Pamatatau
Programme Leader at AUT, Auckland (Alternative public member)
Judi Jones
Consultant, Wellington
Tim Watkin
Journalist, Auckland
Reina Vaai
Lawyer, Auckland
Scott Inglis
Regional Editor for Bay of Plenty Times and Rotorua Daily Post, Tauranga
Alison Thom
Principal advisor at Ministry of Business, Wellington (Alternative public member)
Margot Chandler
Executive Director, Wellington