John D. Sutter
John D. Sutter (2022) is an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Salt Lake City. His work has won the prestigious Livingston Award for Young Journalists, the IRE Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Peabody Award and has received two Emmy nominations – one for new approaches to documentary film and the other for environmental reporting. Previously, Sutter worked as a senior investigative reporter, producer and columnist for CNN. There, he created several award-winning projects, including “Two Degrees,” on the climate crisis,
“Vanishing” and “Change the List.” His investigation into uncounted deaths after Hurricane Maria led to an acknowledgement that 2,975 people died in that storm, not 64. His CNN investigation into modern slavery in Mauritania led to the founding of a nonprofit and diplomatic action. Sutter is a former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and a former Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
During the fellowship, John will be working on “Baseline: Part 1,” a pioneering documentary series that aims to tell the story of the climate crisis beyond a human lifetime. The film follows children in four communities on the frontlines of climate change between now and 2050.