Madeleine Chapman

{{Short description|New Zealand journalist, sportsperson (born 1994)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Madeleine Chapman

| image = Madeleine-Chapman 2021 (cropped) (cropped).jpg

| caption = Chapman in 2021

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1994|3|16|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Wellington, New Zealand

| occupation = Editor, author, journalist, cricketer, javelin thrower

| years_active =

| era =

| employer =

| organisation = The Spinoff, North & South

| awards =

| module = {{Infobox sportsperson|embed=yes

| event = Javelin throw

| pb = 50.98 m (2017)

| nationals = Javelin champion (2013, 2017)

}}

|module2 = {{Infobox cricketer |embed=yes

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm medium{{Cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/maddy-chapman-491130 |title=Maddy Chapman |publisher=ESPN Sports Media |access-date=5 March 2022}}

| role = Batter

| international = true

| female = true

| country = Samoa

| internationalspan = {{nowrap|2012–2014}}

| club1 = Wellington Blaze

| year1 = {{nowrap|2010/11–2012/13}}

}}

Madeleine Elsie Chapman (born 16 March 1994) is a New Zealand editor, journalist and author, and the current editor of The Spinoff and former editor of North & South. Chapman co-wrote the autobiography of New Zealand professional basketball player, Steven Adams, and in 2020 a biography of the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern.

Chapman is a former athlete, competing as a member of the Samoa women's national cricket team and as a New Zealand domestic champion javelin thrower.{{Cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018655627/madeleine-chapman-the-story-of-steven-adams |title=Madeleine Chapman – The story of Steven Adams |date=28 July 2018 |publisher=Radio New Zealand |access-date=5 March 2022}}

Biography

= Early life =

Chapman grew up in the Wellington Region.{{Cite web |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/nba/thunder/2018/06/03/how-madeleine-chapman-got-to-write-steven-adams-autobiography/60521285007/ |title=How Madeleine Chapman got to write Steven Adams' autobiography |first=Erik |last=Horne |date=3 June 2018|publisher=The Oklahoman |access-date=5 March 2022}} Her father was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, while her mother grew up on Upolu in Samoa.{{Cite web |url=https://www.thecoconet.tv/coco-talanoa/humans-of-the-islands/humans-of-the-islands-madeleine-chapman/ |title=Humans of the Islands: Madeleine Chapman |year=2018|website=thecoconet.tv |access-date=5 March 2022}} Chapman has Tuvaluan heritage through her maternal grandfather, and Chinese heritage through her great-grandfather. Chapman has nine siblings, and was an avid reader as a child.{{Cite web |url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/24-07-2018/his-life-his-fight-madeleine-chapman-on-co-writing-steven-adams-autobiograph |title=His life, his fight: Madeleine Chapman on co-writing Steven Adams' autobiography |first=Madeleine |last=Chapman |date=24 July 2018|website=The Spinoff |access-date=5 March 2022}}

Chapman received a scholarship to attend Samuel Marsden Collegiate School in Wellington, where she competed in basketball, athletics and cricket events.{{Cite web |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/sport/cricket-bay-champions-left-trophy-less/7S54AJSISX5NZAWEJA74FOWT7M |title=CRICKET: Bay champions left trophy-less |first=Anendra |last=Singh |date=29 November 2006 |work=Hawke's Bay Today |publisher=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=5 March 2022}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/sport/4824201/Capitals-best-set-to-make-their-mark |title=Capital's best set to make their mark |date=30 March 2011 |work=The Dominion Post |publisher=Stuff |access-date=5 March 2022}} In 2011 she won the Norwood Award for Outstanding Girls Under 20 player of the year,{{Cite web |url=https://www.nzc.nz/news-items/archive/elliott-and-devine-cricket-wellington-awards-winners |title=Elliott and Devine Cricket Wellington Awards Winners |publisher=New Zealand Cricket |date=15 April 2011 |access-date=5 March 2022}} and was also named the College Sport Wellington women's Cricket Player of the Year.{{Cite web |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/sport/5917885/Teens-already-making-mark-on-world-scene |title=Teens already making mark on world scene |first=Tim |last=Barton |date=7 November 2011 |work=The Dominion Post |publisher=Stuff |access-date=5 March 2022}}

= Sporting career =

From 2010 to 2013, Chapman played cricket professionally for the Wellington Blaze.{{Cite web| title = Wellington Blaze Players |url=http://www.cricketwellington.co.nz:80/players/27/wellington-blaze.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120201859/http://www.cricketwellington.co.nz:80/players/27/wellington-blaze.aspx |archive-date=20 January 2011 | publisher = Cricket Wellington | access-date = 5 March 2022}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.nzc.nz/news-items/archive/women-s-domestic-summer-opens-with-three-rounds-of-action |title=Women's domestic summer opens with three rounds of action |publisher=New Zealand Cricket |date=1 December 2011 |access-date=5 March 2022}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/sport/blaze-fired-up-to-win-matches/QTBQSQBD2H6NVBAOQYUHBE7IAM/ |title=Blaze fired up to win matches |first=Anendra |last=Singh |date=8 January 2012 |work=Hawke's Bay Today |publisher=New Zealand Herald |access-date=5 March 2022}}{{Cite web |url=https://archive.blackcaps.co.nz/Players/1058/1058257/1058257.html |title=Madeleine Chapman |publisher=New Zealand Cricket |access-date=5 March 2022}} In 2012, Chapman joined the Samoa women's national cricket team, playing seven rounds in the 2012 Pepsi ICC East Asia Pacific Women's Trophy and topping the batting leader board for the competition.{{Cite web |url=https://www.crichq.com/players/164057/statistics/career |title=Madeleine Chapman |publisher=Cric HQ |access-date=5 March 2022}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.crichq.com/competitions/3321/draws/8782/leaderboards/batting |title=2012 Pepsi ICC East Asia Pacific Women's Trophy – Leader Boards – Batting |publisher=Cric HQ |access-date=5 March 2022}} Chapman continued to compete for Samoa until 2014.{{Cite web| title = Samoan women head to Japan for qualifying |url=https://aucklandcricket.co.nz/Article/0,2792,1923-1580,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113125300/https://aucklandcricket.co.nz/Article/0,2792,1923-1580,00.html |archive-date=13 January 2015 | publisher = Auckland Cricket | access-date = 5 March 2022}}

Representing Auckland-based North Harbour Bays Athletics, Chapman first competed in New Zealand athletics competitions as a javelin thrower in 2013.{{Cite web |url=http://www.anzrankings.org.nz/site/profiles_con/athlete/538353 |title=ATHLETICS NEW ZEALAND RECORDS & RANKINGS: MADELEINE CHAPMAN |website=Athletics New Zealand |access-date=5 March 2022}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/new-zealand/madeleine-chapman-14499700 |title=Madeleine CHAPMAN |website=World Athletics |access-date=5 March 2022}} She attended the New Zealand Athletics Championships in 2013, winning two gold medals for the javelin throw. In 2014, Chapman quit athletics due to an injury.{{Cite web |url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/sports/02-03-2016/how-new-zealand-quietly-became-a-throwing-powerhouse |title=How New Zealand quietly became a throwing powerhouse |first=Madeleine |last=Chapman |date=2 March 2016|website=The Spinoff |access-date=5 March 2022}}

Chapman returned to athletics competitions in late 2016 and 2017. At the Porritt Classic in 2017, Chapman was the champion women's javelin thrower (49.18 m).{{Cite web |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/89390139/ben-langton-burnell-dreams-big-after-qualifying-for-next-years-commonwealth-games |title=Ben Langton Burnell dreams big after reaching 2018 Commonwealth Games standard |first=Joseph |last=Pearson |date=15 February 2017 |website=Stuff |access-date=5 March 2022}} At the 2017 New Zealand national championships, Chapman won a gold medal with a career-best javelin throw of 50.98 metres, outcompeting national champion Tori Peeters at the competition.{{Cite web |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/women-to-the-fore-on-day-2-of-nz-track-and-field-championships/KVYGZDPOM4ADJMVFQ44CSBWORA/ |title=Women to the fore on day 2 of NZ Track and Field Championships |author=Athletics New Zealand |date=18 March 2017 |website=New Zealand Herald |access-date=5 March 2022}} As of 2022, this ranks Chapman fourth in the list of record holders for New Zealand Women's javelin throw.{{Cite web |url=http://www.anzrankings.org.nz/site/results_con |title=JAVELIN THROW WOMEN ALL TIME |website=Athletics New Zealand |access-date=5 March 2022}}

= Media career =

Chapman received a scholarship to attend the University of Auckland, where she studied education. While at university, Chapman wrote as a film critic for Craccum, the Auckland University Students' Association magazine.{{Cite web| title = American Hustle |first=Madeleine |last=Chapman |date=2 March 2014 |url=http://craccum.ausa.auckland.ac.nz/?p=4969 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150124073238/http://craccum.ausa.auckland.ac.nz/?p=4969 |archive-date=24 January 2015 | publisher = Craccum| access-date = 5 March 2022}}{{Cite web| title = Film Comment • Steve McQueen |first=Madeleine |last=Chapman |date=23 March 2014 |url=http://craccum.ausa.auckland.ac.nz/?p=5546 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123224000/http://craccum.ausa.auckland.ac.nz/?p=5546 |archive-date=23 January 2015 | publisher = Craccum| access-date = 5 March 2022}}

In 2016, Chapman became a staff writer for online magazine The Spinoff, beginning as an intern.{{Cite web |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/exit-interview-jacinda-ardern-bio-author-madeleine-chapman-on-quitting-writing-to-paint-the-garage/AXRBQVRW53EARM3JWGMYEGNKBM/ |title=Exit Interview: Jacinda Ardern bio author Madeleine Chapman on quitting writing to paint the garage |first=Eleanor |last=Black |date=28 March 2020|website=New Zealand Herald |access-date=5 March 2022}} In the same year, Chapman was asked to ghostwrite New Zealand professional basketball player Steven Adams' autobiography, which was published in 2018.{{Cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/nba-star-steven-adams-kiwi-ghostwriter-on-his-new-book/ |title=NBA Star Steven Adams' Kiwi Ghostwriter on His New Book |first=Tess |last=McClure |date=30 July 2018|website=Vice |access-date=5 March 2022}} Chapman had known Adams since childhood, as both had played in Wellington regional high school basketball competitions.

While at The Spinoff, Chapman appeared on Three infotainment television programme The Spinoff TV (2018), and has written and directed Scratched: Aotearoa's Lost Sporting Legends (2019 onwards), an NZ On Air-funded documentary webseries.{{Cite web |url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/tv/19-02-2021/meet-six-more-of-aotearoas-lost-sporting-legends-in-the-new-season-of-scratched |title=Meet six more of Aotearoa's lost sporting legends in the new season of Scratched |date=19 February 2021|website=The Spinoff |access-date=5 March 2022}} In 2018, Chapman won the Young Business Journalist of the Year award at the New Zealand Shareholders' Association's 2018 Business Journalism Awards,{{Cite web |url=https://www.newsroom.co.nz/newsrooms-rod-oram-wins-business-award |title=Newsroom's Rod Oram wins business award |date=8 November 2018|website=Newshub |access-date=5 March 2022}} and the best opinion writer (humour/satire) award at the 2019 Voyager Media Awards.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2019/05/newshub-s-tova-o-brien-named-nz-s-best-political-journalist-at-voyager-media-awards.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030020927/https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2019/05/newshub-s-tova-o-brien-named-nz-s-best-political-journalist-at-voyager-media-awards.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 October 2020 |title=Newshub's Tova O'Brien named NZ's best political journalist at Voyager Media Awards |date=18 May 2019 |website=Newshub |access-date=5 March 2022}} Some of Chapman's best-known works include pieces on housing unaffordability,{{Cite web |url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/26-12-2016/spinoff-top-20-most-read-2016

|title=Spinoff Top 20 Countdown: The most-read stories across the site in the year AD 2016 |date=26 December 2016 |website=The Spinoff |access-date=9 March 2022}} sleep inertia aiding lamps,{{Cite web |url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/summer/20-12-2021/the-spinoffs-biggest-stories-of-2021-updated

|title=The Spinoff's biggest stories of 2021, updated |first=Chris |last=Schulz |date=20 December 2021 |website=The Spinoff |access-date=9 March 2022}} and ranking lists of snack foods such as biscuits and lollies.{{Cite web |url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/31-12-2020/the-top-20-of-2020-the-spinoffs-most-read-pieces-in-the-diabolical-year |title=The top 20 of 2020: The Spinoff's most-read pieces in the diabolical year |first=Toby |last=Manhire |author-link1=Toby Manhire |date=31 December 2020 |website=The Spinoff |access-date=9 March 2022}} Her 2018 article exposing false country of origin practices by Denise L'Estrange-Corbet's fashion label World won the award for best (single) news story / scoop at the 2019 Voyager Media Awards.{{Cite web| title = REPORTING WINNERS' AND JUDGES' COMMENTS |url=https://voyagermediaawards.nz/reporting-winners-2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301081730/https://voyagermediaawards.nz/reporting-winners-2019 |archive-date=1 March 2020 | publisher = Newspaper Publishers' Association | access-date = 9 March 2022}}

Chapman left The Spinoff as a writer in early 2020, taking a break from journalism. During the same year, Chapman released A New Kind of Leader, a biography of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern she was commissioned to write in 2019.{{Cite web |url=https://www.newsroom.co.nz/book-of-the-week-madeleine-chapman-on-jacinda-ardern |title=Book of the Week: Jacinda Ardern by Madeleine Chapman |first=Steve |last=Braunias |date=9 April 2020 |website=Newshub |access-date=5 March 2022}}{{Cite web |url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/31-03-2020/madeleine-chapman-our-pm-is-the-finals-mvp-we-need-right-now |title=Madeleine Chapman: Our PM is the finals MVP we need right now |first=Madeleine |last=Chapman |date=31 March 2020|website=The Spinoff |access-date=5 March 2022}} When print magazine North & South was relaunched in late 2020, Chapman became the publication's senior editor.{{Cite web |url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2011/S00260/an-icon-returnsnew-look-north-south-magazine-hits-shelves.htm |title=An icon returns. New-look North & South magazine hits shelves |date=16 November 2020 |author=North & South |publisher=Scoop |access-date=5 March 2022}} In late 2021, Chapman became the co-editor of The Spinoff, alongside long time Spinoff staff writer Alex Casey.{{Cite web |url= https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/24-05-2021/editorial-changes-spinoff-manhire-casey-chapman |title=Editorial changes at The Spinoff |first1=Toby |last1=Manhire |author-link1=Toby Manhire|date=24 May 2021 |website=The Spinoff |access-date=5 March 2022}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018809173/playing-favourites-madeleine-chapman-and-alex-casey |title=Playing Favourites: Madeleine Chapman and Alex Casey |date=21 August 2021 |website=Radio New Zealand |access-date=5 March 2022}} She is due to step down as editor later in 2025.{{cite news |last1=Chapman |first1=Madeleine |title=Huge and true: Madeleine Chapman to step down as editor of The Spinoff |url= https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/16-05-2025/huge-and-true-madeleine-chapman-to-step-down-as-editor-of-the-spinoff |access-date=16 May 2025 |work=The Spinoff |date=16 May 2025}}

Bibliography

{{Cite book|last1=Adams|first1=Steven|author-link1=Steven Adams|last2=Chapman|first2=Madeleine|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1057771816|title=My Life, My Fight|year=2018|isbn=9781525285318|publisher=Penguin|location=Auckland|oclc=1057771816}}
{{Cite book|last=Chapman|first=Madeleine|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1222806027|title=Jacinda Ardern: A New Kind of Leader|year=2020|isbn=9781760641818|publisher=Black Inc.|oclc=1222806027}}