Donie O'Sullivan (journalist) explained

Donie O'Sullivan
Birth Place:Cahersiveen, County Kerry, Ireland
Known For:CNN correspondent
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Donie O'Sullivan (born)[1] is a journalist working for CNN in New York City. Born in Ireland, he holds both Irish and US citizenship.[2]

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,[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.

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

In July 2024, O'Sullivan was reportedly "promoted to senior correspondent" at CNN.[17] [18]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Donie O’Sullivan: I learned how to talk to people working with my dad in Cahersiveen’s fish shop . Irish Times . 28 June 2021 . 18 September 2021 . The 30-year-old journalist, who was born in Co Kerry and is now based in New York [..] .
  2. Web site: Donie O'Sullivan - CNN Correspondent . nationalpress.org . . 14 October 2024 .
  3. Web site: 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 News & Media . independent.ie . 11 September 2021 . 18 September 2021 .
  4. Web site: 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’ . 2022-06-11 . The Irish Times . en.
  5. Web site: UCD History Graduate Donie O'Sullivan reports for CNN from Capitol Hill . ucd.ie . 18 September 2021 .
  6. Web site: Donie O'Sullivan . CNN. edition.cnn.com . 18 September 2021 .
  7. Web site: 10 January 2021 . CNN sends Donie O'Sullivan into the Capitol storm, armed only with a Kerry accent . 18 September 2021 . thetimes.co.uk . The Times.
  8. Web site: 7 January 2021 . Praise for Kerryman's reporting on Washington violence . 18 September 2021 . rte.ie . RTÉ.
  9. Web site: Naughtie . Andrew . Mike Lindell lashes out at CNN reporter as expert calls election fraud 'cyber symposium' a 'pile of nothing' . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220514/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-lindell-symposium-mypillow-reporter-b1902230.html . May 14, 2022 . subscription . live . The Independent . August 23, 2021 . August 13, 2021.
  10. MyPillow CEO's election fraud 'proof' implodes in front of a live audience. August 13, 2021. August 15, 2021. CNN. August 16, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210816203201/https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/08/13/mike-lindell-symposium-osullivan-pkg-ac360-vpx.cnn. live.
  11. Web site: CNN reporter Donie O'Sullivan's documentary is nominated for an Emmy award . Irish Examiner . irishexaminer.com . 28 July 2021 . 18 September 2021 .
  12. Web site: Capitol Man: New documentary about Kerry reporter Donie O'Sullivan's rise to fame . Irish Examiner . irishexaminer.com . 22 August 2021 . 18 September 2021 .
  13. Web site: True to life: RTÉ announces its huge Factual content offering for season ahead . RTÉ . about.rte.ie . 24 August 2021 . 18 September 2021 .
  14. Web site: Donie O’Sullivan: Five things we learned during the Capitol Man documentary . Irish Examiner . irishexaminer.com . 4 January 2022 . 5 January 2022 .
  15. Web site: Irish journalist Donie O'Sullivan among those suspended from Twitter . breakingnews.ie . The Irish Times DAC . James . Cox . 16 December 2022 . 14 October 2024 .
  16. News: Matthews . David . 2022-12-15 . Twitter abruptly suspends journalists covering Elon Musk, company . en-US . . 2022-12-16 . Yahoo! News.
  17. Web site: CNN Promotes Donie O’Sullivan to Senior Correspondent . cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com . 31 July 2024 . 14 October 2024 .
  18. Web site: Irish journalist Donie O'Sullivan promoted to senior correspondent at CNN . Irish Independent . Maeve . McTaggart . 1 August 2024 . 14 October 2024 .

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