Joe Sutton

Joe Sutton is an overnight news editor at CNN, and tackles newsgathering across the U.S. and Canada. Joe began his career at age 15 as a volunteer meteorologist at the National Weather Service. A year later, he joined CNN, where he has worked in various capacities, including serving as a producer for CNN Newsroom live broadcasts (weekdays and weekends) and CNN International live broadcasts. Sutton served as an intern for NBC, where he covered the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. He has also briefly interned for U.S. Congressman David Scott assisting with press and media relations work in his Atlanta area district offices. He has been part of CNN teams that have won two Peabody Awards: for coverage of the Gulf oil spill in 2010 and the Arab Spring uprising in the Middle East and North Africa in 2011. Joe also spent a number of years in various capacities at Turner Entertainment Group (including Turner South, GameTap, New Products Group, TBS, TNT, and formerly CourtTV). Joe plays a leading role in covering major U.S. and international news events across CNN platforms on a daily basis. Among the most notable stories he's worked on are the historic floods in Texas and Oklahoma; Garland, TX shooting, the first time that ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack in the U.S.; the death of "Fast and Furious" star Paul Walker; the Ebola scare in the U.S.; the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; actor Tracy Morgan's near fatal car accident; Superstorm Sandy; the Colorado movie theater shooting; the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting; the extramarital affair of Gen. David Petraeus; the fall of champion cyclist Lance Armstrong; the Boston Marathon bombings; the downfall of former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and the involvement of Alex Rodriguez and other Major League Baseball players in performance-enhancing drugs. He was involved in covering the 2013 Academy Awards for CNN in Los Angeles. He has also interviewed many celebrities and other entertainment figures for news stories. He shares this experience as a motivational speaker, aiming to inspire and teach young people how to achieve success in corporate America. Sutton graduated with cum laude honors from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, GA, with a B.A. in Communications and a minor in Political Science.