Shaunagh Connaire

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Shaunagh Connaire is an Emmy-nominated Irish broadcast journalist who has worked for the BBC, Channel 4 and CNBC, among others. She grew up in Longford and attended Meán Scoil Mhuire, an all-girls school there. In May 2018 she declined an invitation to speak at her old school's graduation because the school wouldn’t show a five-minute showreel she had prepared.

She graduated from University College Dublin in 2006 and earned a Master’s in journalism from Goldsmiths College in London in 2008. She began her career as an accountant with KPMG in Dublin. After Goldsmiths, she worked for the BBC as a researcher and producer on HARDtalk and BBC World News. She then took on production and reporting roles at CNBC and PBS Frontline, before joining Channel 4 to work on more than 30 Unreported World episodes as associate producer. Her first on-screen film for Unreported World covered the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone.

In 2009 she was shortlisted for Student Broadcast Journalist of the Year by the Guardian and Sky News, just a year after leaving KPMG. She won the 2021 Gerald Loeb Award for Video for the Frontline documentary “Opioids, Inc.”