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Donie O'Sullivan (journalist)

Donie O'Sullivan (born 1990 or 1991)[1] is a journalist working for CNN in New York City. Born in Ireland, he holds both Irish and US citizenship.[2]

Donie O'Sullivan
O'Sullivan in 2015
Born1990 or 1991 (age 33–34)
Cahersiveen, County Kerry, Ireland
Known forCNN correspondent
Writing career
OccupationJournalist

Early life

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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

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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]

References

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  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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b c "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.
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