Gary O'Donoghue is a British journalist, working for BBC News, currently in Washington, D.C. as their North America chief political correspondent.

His father was a semi-professional football player who also worked as a taxi driver, and his mother taught ballroom dancing.

[1] From October 2011, O'Donoghue was the chief political correspondent for BBC Radio 4 replacing Norman Smith, primarily reporting for the Today and PM programmes.

In 2007, he broke the story that new UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown was returning early from holiday to deal with an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Surrey.

However, BBC News at Ten deputy editor Daniel Pearl handed the story to June Kelly, which, in 2008, resulted in an out-of-court five-figure payment to O'Donoghue on grounds of disability discrimination.