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 an Irish journalist working for CNN in New York City.

Early life

Originally from Cahersiveen in County Kerry,[2] O'Sullivan attended Coláiste na Sceilge, graduating in 2009.[3] He graduated from University College Dublin in 2012 with a degree in history and politics,[4] and has a masters in political science from Queen's University Belfast.[5]

Career

He worked for Storyful in Dublin and New York,[6] [7] 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.[8] [9]

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.[10] [11] 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,[12] and broadcast in Ireland in January 2022.[13]

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. Musk accused O’Sullivan of violating Twitter's policy on doxing.[14]

In September 2023, O'Sullivan 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.

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: '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 .
  3. 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.
  4. Web site: UCD History Graduate Donie O'Sullivan reports for CNN from Capitol Hill . ucd.ie . 18 September 2021 .
  5. Web site: Donie O'Sullivan . CNN. edition.cnn.com . 18 September 2021 .
  6. 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.
  7. Web site: 7 January 2021 . Praise for Kerryman's reporting on Washington violence . 18 September 2021 . rte.ie . RTÉ.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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 .
  11. 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 .
  12. 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 .
  13. Web site: Donie O’Sullivan: Five things we learned during the Capitol Man documentary . Irish Examiner . irishexaminer.com . 4 January 2022 . 5 January 2022 .
  14. News: Matthews . David . 2022-12-15 . Twitter abruptly suspends journalists covering Elon Musk, company . en-US . . 2022-12-16 . Yahoo! News.

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