Donna Chisholm

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.

"[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.

[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.

[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.