Bio

Kevin Donovan is the Toronto Star’s Chief Investigative Reporter, an author and podcast host of Billionaire Murders and Death in a Small Town. His focus is on journalism that exposes wrongdoing and effects change. Over more than three decades he has reported on the activities of charities, government, police, business among other institutions. Donovan also reported from the battlefields in the Gulf War and the war in Afghanistan following 9/11. He has won three National Newspaper Awards, two Governor General’s Michener Awards, the Canadian Journalism Foundation award and three Canadian Association of Journalists Awards. As the Star’s editor of investigations for many years, Donovan led many award-winning projects for the paper. He is the author of several books, including Secret Life: The Jian Ghomeshi Investigation and the Dead Times (a fiction novel).