A 2023-2024 Knight-Wallace Fellow, Livingston Award winner, Sharpe is a print and audio journalist, and editor, whose stories have helped free two innocent people from life in prison and exposed deadly government failures. In 2021, he won the Livingston Award, a national Murrow Award, a National Headliner Award and a Southeast Emmy for a documentary, "The Imperfect Alibi," about Sharpe's investigation into the 1985 murders of a couple inside their historic Black church in rural Georgia. Sharpe, a 2022 and 2023 Pulitzer Prizes judge, is writing a book called, "The Man No One Believed," for W.W. Norton and Company about the still unfolding aftermath of the church murders case as officials weigh charges for the purported white supremacist tied to the crime by Sharpe's reporting. 

As an unpaid investigative researcher, Sharpe investigates potential wrongful convictions through the Michigan Innocence Clinic, leading to numerous breakthroughs that had evaded previous investigators.
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As an editor and coach, Sharpe is known for careful and humane approaches to help reporters realize their potential in ambitious stories and investigations. He enjoys working with writers and reporters who, in the ever-shifting media landscape, aren't getting enough guidance from their overworked editors. The stories Sharpe edits aren't limited to those involving police and the court system. He has experience with environmental journalism, government, politics, youth unemployment, etc.

Sharpe is available for story editing and coaching, narrative consulting, investigative consultations, evidence evaluation for those embarking on investigations of potential wrongful convictions and matters in the criminal court system.