CBS News Confirmed

Rhona Tarrant is Executive Editor of CBS News Confirmed, a team dedicated to visual verification, combating misinformation, and fact-checking for CBS News and Stations.

Before joining CBS, Rhona served as the U.S. Head of Editorial at Storyful, where she worked on award-winning investigations with outlets including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She began her career in broadcast journalism, working in current affairs with RTÉ in Dublin and WNYC in New York.

Rhona is a two-time Assembly Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, where she focused on disinformation and artificial intelligence. She has also trained journalists worldwide through initiatives with the Google News Initiative and the Facebook Journalism Project.

Originally from Listowel, County Kerry, Rhona holds a Bachelor’s Degree in New Media and English from the University of Limerick and a Master’s Degree in Journalism and Media Communications from Griffith College Dublin.