Chair of PMC Advisory Board
John Utanga is a senior journalist with Television New Zealand's Tagata Pasifika programme.
He is a Cook Islander, born and bred in Rarotonga. He moved to New Zealand to attend Auckland University and "never went home".
He has been a journalist in New Zealand for more than 15 years and joined Tagata Pasifika in 1994 after a few years on newspapers. With a background in hard news reporting, John has carried that on into his television career.
John was also one of the founders of the Pacific Islands Media Association (PIMA) as well as being a founding member of AUT's Pacific Media Centre advisory board. He has been the PMC board chair since 2009.
His interests include politics, sport and all things Cook Islands.