Donie O'Sullivan | |
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 O'Sullivan in 2015 | |
| Born | 24 March 1991 Cahersiveen, County Kerry, Ireland |
| Known for | CNN senior correspondent |
| Writing career | |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Donie O'Sullivan (born 24 March 1991) [1] is a senior correspondent working for CNN in New York City. Born in Ireland, he holds both Irish and US citizenship. [2]
Originally from Cahersiveen in County Kerry, [3] [4] O'Sullivan attended Coláiste na Sceilge, graduating in 2009. [5] He graduated from University College Dublin in 2012 with a degree in history and politics, [5] [6] and has a masters in political science from Queen's University Belfast. [7]
He worked for Storyful in Dublin and New York, [8] [9] and joined CNN in 2016. [7]
O'Sullivan has covered the impact of social media on politics and reported on the 2021 United States Capitol attack. [7] When Mike Lindell held a three-day "Cyber Symposium" in August 2021, with a promise that he would present "irrefutable evidence" of election fraud, O'Sullivan attended and brought cybersecurity expert Harri Hursti to the conference; Hursti said that Lindell's purported evidence was a "pile of nothing" and found no proof of election fraud. [10] [11]
In 2021, O'Sullivan's work on a story about a COVID-19 "patient-zero conspiracy theory" (broadcast by CNN in 2020) was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy Award. [12] [13] Donie O'Sullivan: Capitol Man, a documentary covering O'Sullivan's own life and move from "a small town in Kerry to become an international household name", was commissioned by RTÉ Television, [14] and broadcast in Ireland in January 2022. [15]
In December 2022, O'Sullivan's Twitter account was among several journalists' accounts that were suspended after covering Twitter's owner Elon Musk during the Twitter suspensions of December 2022. [16] Musk accused O’Sullivan of violating Twitter's policy on doxing. [17]
In September 2023, he worked on an episode of the CNN series The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper, Titled Waiting for JFK: Report from the Fringe, the episode focused on the toll conspiracy theories were having on American families. [18]
During the 2024 US presidential campaign, O'Sullivan led reporting for three hour-long CNN specials titled "MisinfoNation," as part of The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper. [19] [20] O'Sullivan was promoted to senior correspondent at CNN in July 2024. [21] [22]
The 30-year-old journalist, who was born in Co Kerry and is now based in New York [..]