Donie O'Sullivan (born 24 March 1991)[2] is a senior correspondent working forCNN in New York City. Born in Ireland, he holds both Irish and US citizenship.[3]
He worked forStoryful in Dublin and New York,[9][10] and joined CNN in 2016.[8]
O'Sullivan has covered the impact of social media on politics and reported on the2021 United States Capitol attack.[8] WhenMike 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 expertHarri Hursti to the conference; Hursti said that Lindell's purported evidence was a "pile of nothing" and found no proof of election fraud.[11][12]
In 2021, O'Sullivan's work on a story about aCOVID-19 "patient-zero conspiracy theory" (broadcast by CNN in 2020) was nominated for aNews & Documentary Emmy Award.[13][14]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 byRTÉ Television,[15] and broadcast in Ireland in January 2022.[16]
In December 2022, O'Sullivan's Twitter account was among several journalists' accounts that were suspended after covering Twitter's ownerElon Musk during theTwitter suspensions of December 2022.[17] Musk accused O’Sullivan of violating Twitter's policy ondoxing.[18]
In September 2023, he worked on an episode of the CNN seriesThe Whole Story With Anderson Cooper, TitledWaiting for JFK: Report from the Fringe, the episode focused on the toll conspiracy theories were having on American families.[19]
During the 2024 US presidential campaign, O'Sullivan led reporting for three hour-long CNN specials titled "MisinfoNation," as part ofThe Whole Story With Anderson Cooper.[20][21] O'Sullivan was promoted to senior correspondent at CNN in July 2024.[22][23]
Writing inMediaite in December 2024, Alex Griffing criticised O'Sullivan for profilingHasan Piker without pressing him on what Griffing described as Piker's "more extreme views" (such as Piker's statement that "America deserved9/11" or defence ofHamas) stating that this was an omission from O'Sullivan as he had "got his start covering online misinformation and extremism".[24]
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