Chris Graham is the founding editor and one of the non-Indigenous owners of the National Indigenous Times (NIT), an independent fortnightly newspaper.

Chris got his start in the media as a 15-year-old copyboy at the Sydney Morning Herald, before switching to magazines and then regional journalism. In 2002, a small group of black and white Australians joined together to create NIT. The newspaper has managed to survive and thrive today without a cent of government funding, thanks to a campaigning style of independent journalism and a simmering distrust of mainstream media and government.

In 2005, Chris won a Walkley Award for Excellence in Indigenous Affairs Reporting for a series of stories based on leaked federal cabinet documents which detailed plans to abolish the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Commission. The stories ultimately saw Chris' home and office raided by the Australian Federal Police.

The previous year, Chris won the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's Human Rights Award - Print Category for a series of articles on leaked NSW cabinet documents which admitted the theft of tens of millions of dollars in wages from thousands of Aboriginal state wards and mission residents. He also received a Walkley High Commendation for the stories.

Chris lives and works in Canberra with his partner, Jacqui, foster son Dale and Kelpie LP (Little Princess). A hopeless optimist trapped in the body of a bitter pessimist, Chris divides his spare time between pottering around his vegie garden and releasing his frustrations on an ice hockey rink, an arena, which enables him to embrace his natural inclination towards 'beat-ups' without affecting his career.