He plays a leading role in covering major U.S. and international news events for CNN.
His father, also named Joseph Sutton, was a long serving Atlanta Police Officer (now deceased) and his mother, Terry Johnson, works in the medical field.
But Sutton always had a dream of television, and that's when he was presented the opportunity to work at CNN in a summer job capacity when he was a high school junior.
He at the time was a volunteer meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia.
In his present role, some of Sutton's duties includes handling newsgathering in the United States on the overnights.
Sutton frequently appears as a motivational speaker on how to achieve success in corporate America.
[4] Sutton's news coverage has included the death of Muhammad Ali;[5] the Orlando nightclub shooting; the deaths of musician David Bowie and “Fast and Furious” star Paul Walker, and the Ebola scare in the U.S.[6] the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri;[7] Sutton was the first to break the story that Kim Kardashian was held at gunpoint in her Paris hotel where millions of dollars in jewelry was stolen.