Oliver O'Connell
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Oliver O’Connell is a New York-based Digital Live Editor for BBC News.
He recently joined the corporation from The Independent, where he spent more than five years specialising in live blog coverage of US politics, major court cases, and other fast-developing stories.
In this role, Oliver has covered the 2020 and 2024 elections, the Capitol riot and subsequent January 6 hearings, the trials of Donald Trump, Ghislaine Maxwell, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, Alex Jones, the Parkland shooter's sentencing, and the Alex Murdaugh and Lori Vallow cases.
Oliver’s career began at Euromoney Institutional Investor, where he worked on an international trade finance publication, which he later edited. He also has experience as a freelance writer for investment banks and was a reporter for Mail Online in the US.