Oliver Darcy

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Oliver Darcy
Born (1990-08-20) August 20, 1990 (age 35)
Alma materUniversity of California, Merced
EmployerCNN (2017–2024)
Websitestatus.news

Oliver Darcy (born August 20, 1990[1][2]) is an American journalist, author of the newsletter Status, and former senior media reporter at CNN.

Early life

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Darcy's parents migrated to the United States from Iran.[3] He has stated that he developed an interest in journalism during high school. He became the editor-in-chief at The Charger, his high school newspaper.[1] Darcy graduated from the University of California, Merced with a degree in political science.[4]

Career

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Darcy was the politics editor at Business Insider and deputy managing editor at The Blaze.[5]

From 2017 to 2024, Darcy worked at CNN, beginning to write the network's Reliable Sources newsletter after Brian Stelter left the network in 2022.[6][7] There, Darcy broke the news that a Tucker Carlson Tonight writer had a history of writing racist messages.[2] He also was a frequent guest on CNN's cable news channel.[8] Darcy announced in August 2024,[2] after contract renewal negotiations,[9] that he would pursue an independent newsletter about the media industry,[2] with a source close to him saying Darcy declined to renew his contract with CNN.[10]

Paid subscriptions to Status cost $15 per month, or $150 per year.[6][2] Within a month of launching Status, Darcy scooped a story about the relationship between journalist and friend Olivia Nuzzi and former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,[11][9] which Business Insider called "a staggering story" and which placed Nuzzi on leave from her job at New York.[12] In February 2025, Darcy brought former CNN editor Jon Passantino to Status. As of July 2025, Status has 85,000 total subscribers.[13] Passantino and Darcy will host a videocast called Power Lines based on their reporting, starting in July 2025.[13]

See also

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References

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