Donie O'Sullivan (born ) is an Irish journalist working for CNN in

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Early life

Originally from Cahersiveen in

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, O'Sullivan attended

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, graduating in 2009. He graduated from University College Dublin in 2012 with a degree in history and politics, and has a masters in political science from

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. He worked for

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in Dublin and New York, before joining CNN in 2016.

CNN (2016–present)

He has covered the impact of social media on politics and reported on the

2021 United States Capitol attack On January 6, 2021, following the defeat of then-U.S. President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, a mob of his supporters attacked the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. The mob was seeking to keep Trump in pow ...

. 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. ''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, and broadcast in Ireland in January 2022. In December 2022, O'Sullivan's Twitter account was among several journalist's accounts that got suspended after covering Twitter's owner Elon Musk during the December 15, 2022 Twitter suspensions. Musk accused O’Sullivan of violating Twitter’s policy on doxing.

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