Donna Chisholm
{{short description|New Zealand investigative journalist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2019}}
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Donna Elise Chisholm (born 9 June 1957) is a New Zealand investigative journalist and author.{{Cite web|url=https://voyagermediaawards.nz/winners-finalists/2017-winners|title=2017 Winners|website=Voyager Media Awards|language=en-NZ|access-date=7 June 2019}}
Career
Chisholm was the first female chief reporter at the Auckland Star newspaper.{{Cite news|title=Behind the Story|date=December 2018|work=North & South}} Former New Zealand Listener editor Jenny Wheeler has called her the most "outstanding health reporter New Zealand's ever seen."{{Cite news|title=Dauntless Donna|last=Shepheard|first=Nicola|date=January 2003|work=North & South magazine|pages=68–75}} 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.{{Cite news |date=30 May 2009 |title=Falsely imprisoned: David Dougherty's story |url=http://i.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/features/1387410/Falsely-imprisoned-David-Doughertys-story |work=Sunday Star Times}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0908/S00125.htm|title=Forensic Science|date=17 August 2009|website=www.scoop.co.nz|access-date=7 June 2019}} Dougherty was subsequently exonerated and awarded $868,728 in compensation.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10728300|title=Arrest interrupts sentencing|last=Koubaridis|first=Andrew|date=26 May 2011|access-date=7 June 2019|language=en-NZ|issn=1170-0777}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11847308|title=David Dougherty, who was wrongly convicted of rape and abduction, dies of cancer at age 50|first1=Anna|last1=Leask|first2=Sam|last2=Hurley|date=28 April 2017|access-date=7 June 2019|language=en-NZ|issn=1170-0777}} Chisholm's six-year investigation was dramatised in the 2009 Television New Zealand film Until Proven Innocent,{{Cite web|url=http://kiwicrime.blogspot.com/2009/08/dvd-review-until-proven-innocent-david.html|title=Crime Watch: DVD Review: Until Proven Innocent (the David Dougherty Story)|date=30 August 2009|website=Crime Watch|access-date=7 June 2019}} and recounted in the 2017 book A Moral Truth: 150 years of investigative journalism in New Zealand by James Hollings.{{Cite book|title=A moral truth: 150 years of investigative journalism in New Zealand|last=Hollings|first=James H.|isbn=9780994141583|location=Auckland, New Zealand|oclc=993043075|year = 2017}}
Chisholm is the author of the book From the Heart, a biography of the New Zealand heart surgeon Brian Barratt-Boyes.{{Cite book|title=From the heart: a biography of Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes|last=Chisholm|first=Donna|date=1987|publisher=Reed Methuen|isbn=0474002128|location=Auckland [N.Z.]|oclc=21077473}}
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.
Awards
- 2000: New Zealand Qantas Media Awards Newspaper Feature Writer of the Year{{Cite web|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0105/S00092/qantas-media-awards-print-results.htm|title=Qantas Media Awards – Print Results|date=25 May 2001|website=www.scoop.co.nz|access-date=9 June 2019}}
- 2004: New Zealand Qantas Media Awards Newspaper Feature Writer of the Year{{Cite web|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0505/S00228/qantas-media-awards-2004-print-results.htm|title=Qantas Media Awards 2004 – Print Results|date=16 May 2005|website=www.scoop.co.nz|access-date=10 June 2019}}
- 2011: Canon Media Awards Magazine Feature Writer of the Year: the Helen Paske Trophy{{Cite news|title=North & South wins|date=July 2011|work=North & South}}
- 2016: Canon Media Awards Science and Technology Feature Writing award{{Cite web|url=https://voyagermediaawards.nz/winners-finalists/2016-winners|title=2016 Winners|website=Voyager Media Awards|language=en-NZ|access-date=2019-07-27}}
- 2017: Outstanding achievement award at the 2017 Voyager Media Awards
- 2018: Voyager Media Awards Science and Technology Award, joint winner{{Cite web|url=https://voyagermediaawards.nz/2018-winners|title=2018 winners|website=Voyager Media Awards|language=en-NZ|access-date=2019-07-27|archive-date=16 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200116095519/https://voyagermediaawards.nz/2018-winners|url-status=dead}}
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Category:New Zealand journalists
Category:New Zealand women journalists
Category:New Zealand investigative journalists