Mr John Roughan, of Auckland, MNZM for services to journalism and the community
Mr John Roughan has been a journalist, editorial writer, columnist, and Associate Editor for the New Zealand Herald, having previously worked for the Auckland Star. He won a Qantas Fellowship to Wolfson College, Cambridge, carrying out research on accommodating indigenous peoples’ nationalism within a cohesive state. He was a New Zealand Press Council member, representing the Newspaper Publishers Association. In 2014, he wrote a biography of Prime Minister Sir John Key. He volunteers with the Centennial Park Bush Society, regularly possum trapping, planting, and weeding. He has served as President, Vice President and Secretary of the Campbells Bay Tennis Club. Mr Roughan is a Qantas Voyager Media Awards Judge.