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