Donna Chisholm

Last updated

Donna Chisholm in 2003 Donna Chisholm with her horse (cropped).jpg
Donna Chisholm in 2003

Donna Elise Chisholm MNZM (born 9 June 1957) is a New Zealand investigative journalist and author. [1]

Contents

Career

Chisholm was the first female chief reporter at the Auckland Star newspaper. [2] Former New Zealand Listener editor Jenny Wheeler has called her the most "outstanding health reporter New Zealand's ever seen." [3] She is best known for her campaign in the Sunday Star-Times to free David Dougherty from prison for a rape he did not commit. [3] [4] [5] Dougherty was subsequently exonerated and awarded $868,728 in compensation. [4] [6] [7] Chisholm's six-year investigation was dramatised in the 2009 Television New Zealand film Until Proven Innocent, [8] and recounted in the 2017 book A Moral Truth: 150 years of investigative journalism in New Zealand by James Hollings. [9]

Chisholm is the author of the book From the Heart, a biography of the New Zealand heart surgeon Brian Barratt-Boyes. [10]

She lives in Auckland, and was formerly the editor-at-large for monthly current affairs magazine North & South , and senior writer for the weekly New Zealand Listener. [1]

Honours and awards

In the 2026 New Year Honours, Chisholm was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to journalism. [16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "2017 Winners". Voyager Media Awards. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  2. ↑ "Behind the Story". North & South. December 2018.
  3. 1 2 Shepheard, Nicola (January 2003). "Dauntless Donna". North & South magazine. pp. 68–75.
  4. 1 2 "Falsely imprisoned: David Dougherty's story". Sunday Star Times. 30 May 2009.
  5. ↑ "Forensic Science". www.scoop.co.nz. 17 August 2009. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  6. ↑ Koubaridis, Andrew (26 May 2011). "Arrest interrupts sentencing". ISSN   1170-0777 . Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  7. ↑ Leask, Anna; Hurley, Sam (28 April 2017). "David Dougherty, who was wrongly convicted of rape and abduction, dies of cancer at age 50". ISSN   1170-0777 . Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  8. ↑ "Crime Watch: DVD Review: Until Proven Innocent (the David Dougherty Story)". Crime Watch. 30 August 2009. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  9. ↑ Hollings, James H. (2017). A moral truth: 150 years of investigative journalism in New Zealand. Auckland, New Zealand. ISBN   9780994141583. OCLC   993043075.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. ↑ Chisholm, Donna (1987). From the heart: a biography of Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes. Auckland [N.Z.]: Reed Methuen. ISBN   0474002128. OCLC   21077473.
  11. ↑ "Qantas Media Awards – Print Results". www.scoop.co.nz. 25 May 2001. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  12. ↑ "Qantas Media Awards 2004 – Print Results". www.scoop.co.nz. 16 May 2005. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  13. ↑ "North & South wins". North & South. July 2011.
  14. ↑ "2016 Winners". Voyager Media Awards. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  15. ↑ "2018 winners". Voyager Media Awards. Archived from the original on 16 January 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  16. ↑ "New Year 2026 Honours: The full list of knights, dames, honourees". The New Zealand Herald . 31 December 2025. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.