Donie O'Sullivan (journalist)

Originally from Cahersiveen in County Kerry,{{cite web|url = https://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-features/donie-osullivan-people-think-its-mad-a-lad-from-cahersiveen-is-on-cnn-they-wouldnt-say-that-if-id-gone-to-blackrock-college-40829732.html | publisher = Independent News & Media | website = independent.ie | title = 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' | first = Donal | last = Lynch | date = 11 September 2021 | accessdate = 18 September 2021 }}{{cite web|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/donie-o-sullivan-i-learned-how-to-talk-to-people-working-with-my-dad-in-cahersiveen-s-fish-shop-1.4606169 | first = Sylvia | last = Thompson | publisher = Irish Times | title = Donie O'Sullivan: I learned how to talk to people working with my dad in Cahersiveen's fish shop | date = 28 June 2021 | accessdate = 18 September 2021 | quote = The 30-year-old journalist, who was born in Co Kerry and is now based in New York [..] }} O'Sullivan attended Coláiste na Sceilge, graduating in 2009.{{Cite news |title=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' | url = https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2022/06/08/donie-osullivan-on-the-leaving-cert-the-irish-oral-fell-on-my-birthday-i-hoped-the-examiner-would-go-easy-on-me-she-didnt/ |access-date=2022-06-11 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}} He graduated from University College Dublin in 2012 with a degree in history and politics,{{cite web|url = https://www.ucd.ie/history/news/donie%20o'sullivan/ | website = ucd.ie | title = UCD History Graduate Donie O'Sullivan reports for CNN from Capitol Hill | accessdate = 18 September 2021 }} and has a masters in political science from Queen's University Belfast.{{cite web|url = https://edition.cnn.com/profiles/donie-osullivan#about | publisher = CNN| website = edition.cnn.com | title = Donie O'Sullivan | accessdate = 18 September 2021 }}

He worked for Storyful in Dublin and New York,{{cite web |date=10 January 2021 |title=CNN sends Donie O'Sullivan into the Capitol storm, armed only with a Kerry accent |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/cnn-sends-donie-o-sullivan-into-the-capitol-storm-armed-only-with-a-kerry-accent-hs5npjk20 | first = Mark | last = Tighe |access-date=18 September 2021 |website=The Times }}{{cite web |date=7 January 2021 |title=Praise for Kerryman's reporting on Washington violence |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2021/0107/1188371-donie-o-sullivan-cnn/ | first = Seán | last = Mac an tSíthigh |accessdate=18 September 2021 |website=rte.ie |publisher=RTÉ}} 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.{{cite web |last1=Naughtie |first1=Andrew |title=Mike Lindell lashes out at CNN reporter as expert calls election fraud 'cyber symposium' a 'pile of nothing' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-lindell-symposium-mypillow-reporter-b1902230.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220514/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-lindell-symposium-mypillow-reporter-b1902230.html |archive-date=May 14, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=The Independent |access-date=August 23, 2021 |date=August 13, 2021}}{{cite AV media|title=MyPillow CEO's election fraud 'proof' implodes in front of a live audience|date=August 13, 2021|url=https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/08/13/mike-lindell-symposium-osullivan-pkg-ac360-vpx.cnn|access-date=August 15, 2021|work=CNN|archive-date=August 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816203201/https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/08/13/mike-lindell-symposium-osullivan-pkg-ac360-vpx.cnn|url-status=live}}

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.{{cite web|url = https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/people/arid-40347206.html | publisher = Irish Examiner | website = irishexaminer.com | title = CNN reporter Donie O'Sullivan's documentary is nominated for an Emmy award | first = Mike | last = McGrath Bryan | date = 28 July 2021 | accessdate = 18 September 2021 }}{{cite web|url = https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40363817.html | publisher = Irish Examiner | website = irishexaminer.com | title = Capitol Man: New documentary about Kerry reporter Donie O'Sullivan's rise to fame | first = Denise | last = O'Donoghue | date = 22 August 2021 | accessdate = 18 September 2021 }} 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,{{cite web|url = https://about.rte.ie/2021/08/24/true-to-life-rte-announces-its-huge-factual-content-offering-for-season-ahead/ | publisher = RTÉ | website = about.rte.ie | title = True to life: RTÉ announces its huge Factual content offering for season ahead | date = 24 August 2021 | accessdate = 18 September 2021 }} and broadcast in Ireland in January 2022.{{cite web|url = https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40778088.html | publisher = Irish Examiner | website = irishexaminer.com | title = Donie O'Sullivan: Five things we learned during the Capitol Man documentary | date = 4 January 2022 | accessdate = 5 January 2022 | first = Denise | last = O'Donoghue }}

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.{{cite web|url = https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/irish-journalist-donie-osullivan-among-those-suspended-from-twitter-1406695.html | website = breakingnews.ie | publisher = The Irish Times DAC | title = Irish journalist Donie O'Sullivan among those suspended from Twitter | first = James | last = Cox | date = 16 December 2022 | accessdate = 14 October 2024 }} Musk accused O’Sullivan of violating Twitter's policy on doxing.{{Cite news |last=Matthews |first=David |date=2022-12-15 |title=Twitter abruptly suspends journalists covering Elon Musk, company |language=en-US |work=New York Daily News |url=https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-abruptly-suspends-journalists-covering-025400876.html |access-date=2022-12-16 |via=Yahoo! News}}

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.{{Citation |title=The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper Investigates "Waiting for JFK: Report from the Fringe" Featuring Reporting from CNN's Donie O'Sullivan | website = cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com |url=https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2023/09/18/the-whole-story-with-anderson-cooper-investigates-waiting-for-jfk-report-from-the-fringe-featuring-reporting-from-cnns-donie-osullivan/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230920140329/https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2023/09/18/the-whole-story-with-anderson-cooper-investigates-waiting-for-jfk-report-from-the-fringe-featuring-reporting-from-cnns-donie-osullivan/|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 September 2023}}{{better source|reason=This is a primary source. Which appears to be a blog post? Neither of which are ideal sources... |date=February 2024}}

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.{{Cite web |title=CNN's Donie O'Sullivan Reports in "MisinfoNation: The Trump Faithful" |url=https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2024/04/22/cnns-donie-osullivan-reports-from-the-fringe-in-misinfonation-the-trump-faithful-for-the-whole-story-with-anderson-cooper/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |language=en-US | website = cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com }}{{Cite web |title=Donie O'Sullivan Reports in "MisinfoNation: The Lost Left" |url=https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2024/09/09/donie-osullivan-reports-in-misinfonation-the-lost-left-for-the-whole-story-with-anderson-cooper/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |language=en-US | website = cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com }} O'Sullivan was promoted to senior correspondent at CNN in July 2024.{{Cite web |title=CNN Promotes Donie O'Sullivan to Senior Correspondent |url=https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2024/07/31/cnn-promotes-donie-osullivan-to-senior-correspondent/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |language=en-US | website = cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com }}{{cite web|url = https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/irish-journalist-donie-osullivan-promoted-to-senior-correspondent-at-cnn/a1893004426.html | work = Irish Independent | title = Irish journalist Donie O'Sullivan promoted to senior correspondent at CNN | first = Maeve | last = McTaggart | date = 1 August 2024 | accessdate = 14 October 2024 }}

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