Donie O'Sullivan (born 24 March 1991)[1] is a senior correspondent working for CNN in New York City. Born in Ireland, he holds both Irish and US citizenship.[2]
He worked for Storyful in Dublin and New York,[8][9] and joined CNN in 2016.[7]
O'Sullivan has covered the impact of social media on politics and reported on the 2021 United States Capitol attack.[7] 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.[10][11]
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.[12][13]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,[14] and broadcast in Ireland in January 2022.[15]
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.[16] Musk accused O’Sullivan of violating Twitter's policy on doxing.[17]
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.[18]
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.[19][20] O'Sullivan was promoted to senior correspondent at CNN in July 2024.[21][22]
References
^O'Sullivan, Donie (14 January 2025). "Bluesky post". bsky.app. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
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