A 2025 Type Media Fellow, and 2023-2024 Knight-Wallace Fellow, Sharpe is a print and audio journalist, and editor, whose stories have helped two innocent people escape 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 the author of "The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders," which comes out Aug. 5, 2025, about the still unfolding aftermath of the church murders case as officials in 2024 arrested on murder charges the purported white supremacist tied to the crime by Sharpe's reporting.