Oliver Darcy | Biography

• By Ojasbi
• Original : September 13, 2021

Oliver Darcy works as a Senior Media Reporter at CNN.

Who is Oliver Darcy?

Oliver Darcy works as a Senior Media Reporter at CNN. Before CNN, he worked for a few news firms, namely, The Blaze (2013-2016), Business Insider (2016-2017), and handled the Campus Reform website of the non-profit organization Leadership Institute. He has published substantial news, articles, and editorials by working under various capacities in the given firms.

Early Life and Education

Darcy was born in the United States of America, in the state of Washington. He received his bachelor's degree of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, Merced, in 2011.

Career

Darcy has been working in the landscape of journalism for nearly a decade.

He worked as a Deputy Managing Editor at The Blaze from 2013 to 2016 and wrote substantial news pieces until his term. He then landed the position of Politics Editor at Business Insider in June 2016 and remained until 2017. There, he covered general politics, especially the 2016 election, and handled a team of reporters. 

Presently, he is working as a Senior Media Reporter at CNN, a designation he has been holding since 2017.

Career at Leadership Institute

He also worked as an Editor of Digital Media for the Campus Reform website of Leadership Institute, a non-profit organization specializing in teaching political technology. At the Institute, he was responsible for reporting inefficiency, deceit, and misconduct in colleges around the country. 

Other works

Before joining the Leadership Institute, he had launched a website named Exposing Leftists, a video-based website committed to exposing liberal beliefs' intrinsic flaws.

Darcy has his profile of published editorials on the Pew Research Center's page. It is a neutral resource center that informs the readers about the topics, attitudes, and trends that influence the world. As of September 2021, he had released 91 works.

CNN

As a CNN correspondent, Darcy focuses on the nexus of media, politics, and technology. He appears on CNN and CNN International, regularly giving live reports and analyses on current affairs. 

Darcy also contributes to the renowned Reliable Sources newsletter, which publishes six days a week and covers daily headlines from the media sector. Darcy has won awards for reporting concerns regarding the right-wing media and its influence on politics in general. He also discusses how propaganda and conspiracy theories had flourished in the Trump era at CNN.

TV Appearances

Darcy has appeared on numerous talk shows/news broadcasts. He appeared on the 7.142 episode of the news show, Early Start in 2018 and in an episode dated 19 July 2018 of another news show S.E. Cupp Unfiltered. 

Additionally, he starred as Oliver Darcy himself but represented a monologist in the comedy series ASSSSCAT 3000: New York in 2019. He was also seen in the episode 6.221 and 7.66 of the news show New Day in 2018 and 2019 respectively. 

Furthermore, he was featured on three episodes, particularly 5.8, 6.29, and 6.60, of the news/talk show At This Hour with Kate Bolduan (2018- 2019) and the documentary After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News in 2020. He was a part of the news series CNN Tonight in its episode dated 11 July 2020 and contributed to CNN Newsroom from 2017 until 2020. From 2018 through 2021, he appeared in roughly 25 episodes of the TV show Reliable Sources as a panelist, contributor, and correspondent. Similarly, he is credited with archive footage of his appearance on the news series, Secular Talk in 2018.

Personal Life

Darcy currently resides in New York City.