Donie O'Sullivan (journalist)

Last updated

Donie O'Sullivan
Donie O'Sullivan 2015 (headshot) (cropped).jpg
O'Sullivan in 2015
Born1990or1991(age 33–34)
Cahersiveen, County Kerry, Ireland
Known forCNN correspondent
Writing career
OccupationJournalist
O'Sullivan reporting for CNN in 2022 Donie O'Sullivan CNN.jpg
O'Sullivan reporting for CNN in 2022

Donie O'Sullivan (born 1990or1991) [1] is a journalist working for CNN in New York City. Born in Ireland, he holds both Irish and US citizenship. [2]

Contents

Early life

Originally from Cahersiveen in County Kerry, [3] O'Sullivan attended Coláiste na Sceilge, graduating in 2009. [4] He graduated from University College Dublin in 2012 with a degree in history and politics, [4] [5] and has a masters in political science from Queen's University Belfast. [6]

Career

He worked for Storyful in Dublin and New York, [7] [8] and joined CNN in 2016. [6]

O'Sullivan has covered the impact of social media on politics and reported on the 2021 United States Capitol attack. [6] 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. [9] [10]

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. [11] [12] 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, [13] and broadcast in Ireland in January 2022. [14]

In December 2022, O'Sullivan's Twitter account was among several journalist's accounts that were suspended after covering Twitter's owner Elon Musk during the Twitter suspensions of December 2022. [15] Musk accused O’Sullivan of violating Twitter's policy on doxing. [16]

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. [17]

In July 2024, O'Sullivan was reportedly "promoted to senior correspondent" at CNN. [18] [19]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cahersiveen</span> Town in County Kerry, Ireland

Cahersiveen, sometimes Cahirciveen, is a town in the far south-west of Ireland, in County Kerry. As at 2022 it had a population of 1,297.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charlie Bird</span> Irish journalist and broadcaster (1949–2024)

Charles Brown Bird was an Irish journalist and broadcaster. He was Chief News Correspondent with RTÉ News until January 2009. He took up the role of Washington Correspondent, but prematurely returned to his earlier post in Ireland in June 2010. He retired from RTÉ in August 2012.

<i>College Tribune</i> Student newspaper of University College Dublin

The College Tribune is a student newspaper which serves Ireland's largest third level institution, University College Dublin. It was established in 1989 with the assistance of journalist and broadcaster Vincent Browne who was attending the university as an evening student at the time. Browne noted the campus' lack of a news outlet which was independent of both the university and University College Dublin Students' Union and alongside founding editor Eamon Dillon set up the Tribune to correct this. Initially, a close working relationship was maintained between the Tribune and the Sunday Tribune which was at the time edited by Browne. This relationship afforded the paper the use of professional production facilities in its fledgling years. Ultimately however, the student newspaper would outlast its national weekly counterpart with the Sunday Tribune having ceased publication in 2011. The College Tribune is UCD's oldest surviving newspaper having been published continuously for over 30 years.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jack O'Connor (Gaelic footballer)</span> Irish Gaelic footballer and manager

Jack O'Connor is an Irish Gaelic football manager and former player. In 2021, he was appointed manager of the senior Kerry county team, having earlier managed it over two terms in the 2000s.

Spa GAA is a Gaelic football club based in Tullig, Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland. Founded in 1948, the club gets its name from a spa well in the townland of Tullig close to Killarney. The club won the Munster Intermediate Club Football Championship in 2009.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harri Hursti</span> Finnish computer programmer

Harri Harras Hursti is a Finnish computer programmer and former chairman of the board and co-founder of ROMmon, where he supervised in the development of the world's smallest 2-gigabit traffic analysis product that was later acquired by F-Secure Corporation.

Rathmore is a Gaelic Athletic Association club from Rathmore, County Kerry, Ireland. Together with 12 other football clubs they form the East Kerry Division of the GAA county of Kerry Notable players include Paul Murphy, Shane Ryan, Aidan O'Mahony.

Donie O'Sullivan is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for the Spa club and at senior level for the Kerry county team between 1962 and 1975. He was the recipient of Kerry's first All Star Award in 1971, a feat he repeated in 1972. In 2019, he was inducted into Munster GAA's "hall of fame".

Coláiste na Sceilge is a secondary school in Cahersiveen, County Kerry, Ireland. It is a co-educational community school which grew out of the amalgamation in 1999 of St John Bosco Secondary School, Scoil Uí Chonaill and Waterville Vocational School. In 2018, the former Kerry footballer Maurice Fitzgerald was appointed as its principal. As of 2019, it had an enrollment of 511 secondary school students. The school offers courses under the Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate curriculum. The school has won a number of provincial and national titles in Gaelic football.

Donie Buckley is an Irish Gaelic football coach and former player. He played at full forward with his local club Castleisland Desmonds but never with the Kerry county team. His coaching has taken him all along the western coast from Clare to Galway, to Limerick, Kerry and Mayo.

Events during the year 2016 in Ireland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mike Lindell</span> American businessman (born 1961)

Michael James Lindell, also known as the My Pillow Guy, is an American businessman, political activist, and conspiracy theorist. He is the founder and CEO of My Pillow, a pillow, bedding, and slipper manufacturing company.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Munster Technological University</span> Irish technological university

Munster Technological University is a public technological university consisting of six campuses located in Cork and Kerry. The university was established in January 2021, the result of a merger between two institutes of technology, Cork Institute of Technology and the Institute of Technology, Tralee. Its creation was announced in May 2020. It accommodates more than 18,000 students and over 2,000 members of staff.

Ronan Kealy, known as Junior Brother, is an Irish alternative folk singer-songwriter from County Kerry.

Sinéad Crowley is an Irish journalist and novelist who formerly worked for RTÉ, Ireland's national radio and television station, where she was Arts and Media Correspondent for RTÉ News from 2006 to 2023. She has published four novels, three of which were shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards.

Yvonne Murray is an Irish journalist. She is the current Global Security Reporter based in New York for RTÉ News since December 2022. She previously reported for RTÉ News on Chinese affairs from Taipei, Taiwan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">South Kerry Greenway</span> Hiking and cycling trail in Ireland

The South Kerry Greenway is a proposed greenway rail trail in County Kerry, Ireland. It is intended to be 27 kilometres long when completed and run from Glenbeigh to Cahersiveen. It is an off-road trail intended for use by cyclists and walkers along some of the route of the Farranfore–Valentia Harbour line, which opened 1893 and closed in 1960. The line was operated by the Great Southern and Western Railway.

The Twitter Files are a series of releases of select internal Twitter, Inc. documents published from December 2022 through March 2023 on Twitter. CEO Elon Musk gave the documents to journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Lee Fang, and authors Michael Shellenberger, David Zweig and Alex Berenson shortly after he acquired Twitter on October 27, 2022. Taibbi and Weiss coordinated the publication of the documents with Musk, releasing details of the files as a series of Twitter threads.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">December 2022 Twitter suspensions</span> Suspension of journalists from Twitter

On December 15, 2022, Twitter suspended the accounts of ten journalists who have covered the company and its owner, Elon Musk. They included reporters Keith Olbermann, Steven L. Herman, and Donie O'Sullivan, as well as journalists from The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and The Intercept. Musk cited an incident between "a crazy stalker" and a car with his child as a justification for the suspensions. Posters on behalf of the owners of the accounts said that the suspensions were permanent. On December 16, 2022, Musk stated that account access would only be restricted for seven days and on December 17, 2022, some accounts were reportedly restored with Musk citing Twitter community polls as the reason for the reversal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yoel Roth</span> American social media executive

Yoel Roth is an American technology executive who is the head of trust and safety at Match Group. Roth served as the head of Twitter's trust and safety department, a position he stepped down from in November 2022, due to the scandals discovered after Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter. Roth is a technology policy fellow at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition, he is a technical advisor on the Commission on Information Disorder at the Aspen Institute and a board member at Indiana University's Observatory on Social Media.

References

  1. "Donie O'Sullivan: I learned how to talk to people working with my dad in Cahersiveen's fish shop". Irish Times. 28 June 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021. The 30-year-old journalist, who was born in Co Kerry and is now based in New York [..]
  2. "Donie O'Sullivan - CNN Correspondent". nationalpress.org. National Press Foundation . Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  3. "Donie O'Sullivan: 'People think it's mad a lad from Cahersiveen is on CNN. They wouldn't say that if I'd gone to Blackrock College'". independent.ie. Independent News & Media. 11 September 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Donie O'Sullivan on the Leaving Cert: 'The Irish oral fell on my birthday. I hoped the examiner would go easy on me. She didn't'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  5. "UCD History Graduate Donie O'Sullivan reports for CNN from Capitol Hill". ucd.ie. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  6. 1 2 3 "Donie O'Sullivan". edition.cnn.com. CNN. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  7. "CNN sends Donie O'Sullivan into the Capitol storm, armed only with a Kerry accent". thetimes.co.uk. The Times. 10 January 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  8. "Praise for Kerryman's reporting on Washington violence". rte.ie. RTÉ. 7 January 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  9. Naughtie, Andrew (13 August 2021). "Mike Lindell lashes out at CNN reporter as expert calls election fraud 'cyber symposium' a 'pile of nothing'" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 14 May 2022. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  10. MyPillow CEO's election fraud 'proof' implodes in front of a live audience. CNN. 13 August 2021. Archived from the original on 16 August 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  11. "CNN reporter Donie O'Sullivan's documentary is nominated for an Emmy award". irishexaminer.com. Irish Examiner. 28 July 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  12. "Capitol Man: New documentary about Kerry reporter Donie O'Sullivan's rise to fame". irishexaminer.com. Irish Examiner. 22 August 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  13. "True to life: RTÉ announces its huge Factual content offering for season ahead". about.rte.ie. RTÉ. 24 August 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  14. "Donie O'Sullivan: Five things we learned during the Capitol Man documentary". irishexaminer.com. Irish Examiner. 4 January 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  15. Cox, James (16 December 2022). "Irish journalist Donie O'Sullivan among those suspended from Twitter". breakingnews.ie. The Irish Times DAC. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  16. Matthews, David (15 December 2022). "Twitter abruptly suspends journalists covering Elon Musk, company". New York Daily News . Retrieved 16 December 2022 via Yahoo! News.
  17. "The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper Investigates "Waiting for JFK: Report from the Fringe" Featuring Reporting from CNN's Donie O'Sullivan", cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com, archived from the original on 20 September 2023[ better source needed ]
  18. "CNN Promotes Donie O'Sullivan to Senior Correspondent". cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. 31 July 2024. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  19. McTaggart, Maeve (1 August 2024). "Irish journalist Donie O'Sullivan promoted to senior correspondent at CNN". Irish Independent. Retrieved 14 October 2024.