Sharif Paget

Senior News Desk Producer

Sharif Paget is an Emmy award-winning Senior News Desk Producer on CNN's National Desk in New York.
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Birds onboard Delta flight: passenger tries to catch one, video shows
A crew tasked with debris removal found human remains on May 1 along the Nolichucky River about 4 miles from where Cloyd was last seen. Two days later, Washington County Sheriff Keith Sexton announced they received confirmation from the medical examiner that the remains were Cloyd.
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Family gets closure after body of man missing during Hurricane Helene recovered months later in Tennessee
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Two hundred and sixteen. That’s how many days passed before crews in East Tennessee found the body of a man who was swept away in raging floodwaters caused by Hurricane Helene, bringing his family much-needed closure after months of searching.
This image taken from video shows a woman and a police officer as they are pursued by a mob of Orthodox Jewish men in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., on Thursday, April 24, 2025.
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Woman demands hate crime investigation after threats by pro-Israel mob
Apr 29, 2025
New York police are investigating the attack of a Brooklyn woman harassed last week by a pro-Israeli group of men in an encounter captured on multiple videos, which has incited demonstrations and condemnation from religious groups.
Investigators look over the scene at a Tesla Collision Center after an individual used incendiary devices to set several vehicles on fire on March 18, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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FBI launches task force targeting anti-Tesla ‘domestic terrorism’
Mar 25, 2025
The FBI announced on Monday the creation of a task force intended to “crack down on violent Tesla attacks,” a move that follows a spate of such incidents appearing to target Elon Musk’s electric car manufacturer.
The American flag is seen unfurled upside down at Yosemite National Park, California, on Saturday, February 22, 2025.
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Why an upside-down American flag was hung in Yosemite National Park
Feb 25, 2025
The flag was reportedly hung over the side of El Capitan as a sign of protest by Yosemite employees concerned about the recent downsizing carried out as part of the Trump administration’s cost-cutting initiatives.
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Video Kendrick Lamar’s background performer’s flag leads to lifetime NFL ban 1:26
Feb 12, 2025
At the end of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance, one of his background performers - Zül-Qarnain Nantambu - unfurled a Sudanese and Palestinian flag. He displayed it in protest of the ongoing civil war in Sudan and conflict in Gaza.
Scottsdale Fire Department firefighters work on a crashed Learjet at Scottsdale Airport after it crashed into another parked plane Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, in Scottsdale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Pilot killed when small jet owned by Vince Neil crashes into plane upon landing in Arizona
Feb 12, 2025
One person is dead and several were injured after a small business jet crashed into a parked plane as it arrived at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona, just east of Phoenix, on Monday afternoon.
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - FEBRUARY 09: A protester holds a flag onstage during Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show at Caesars Superdome on February 09, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Emilee Chinn/Getty Images)
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What we know about the Super Bowl halftime show demonstrator
Feb 11, 2025
The Super Bowl halftime performer who unfurled Sudanese and Palestinian flags in an apparent protest action in New Orleans Sunday night will be banned for life from all NFL stadiums and events, an NFL spokesperson told CNN.
Andre Howard III, Valentina Guzmán Murillo and Ramesses Dreuitt were three of the children impacted by the medevac jet crash in Philadelphia.
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He lost his father and now he’s fighting for his life. He’s one of the young victims of the Philadelphia plane crash
Feb 9, 2025
A Philadelphia father picked up his three children from school and took them to Dunkin’ Donuts for an evening snack. This weekly family ritual would soon be upended when a medevac jet crashed nearby, killing everyone on board, one person on the ground and injuring more than a dozen people.
10-year-old boy hit with flying debris saving his sister after medevac jet crashed
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‘Did I save her?’ Young boy was injured by debris while trying to protect his little sister from Philadelphia plane crash
Feb 5, 2025
A Philadelphia father is calling his son a “superhero” for shielding his younger sister when a medevac jet crashed in a Philadelphia neighborhood, showering flames and debris on homes and the vehicle in which the family was riding. The boy suffered a serious head wound and is recovering.

About

Sharif Paget is an Emmy award-winning Senior News Desk Producer on CNN’s National Desk in New York. He helps lead a team that finds, vets, and acquires key video, audio, photos, and witness accounts to tell compelling stories for TV and digital platforms.

While at CNN, Paget has covered a wide range of domestic and international breaking news, including mass shootings, widespread protests, extreme weather events, and conflicts abroad. He was awarded an Emmy in 2024 for his coverage of the Hamas-led October 7th attack on Israel and an Edward R. Murrow Award recognizing the same conflict.

Paget joined CNN in 2019 and got his start in journalism working in Cairo and the Sinai for Egypt’s only independent English newspaper, Daily News Egypt. Prior to joining CNN, Paget was awarded a year-long fellowship from the Knight Foundation and worked for VICE News Tonight on HBO as a researcher and producer with television’s first dedicated climate news team.

He holds a master’s degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and graduated from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with a degree in Philosophy and the History of Mathematics and Science.