Courtney Shea

Courtney Shea is an award-winning culture and current events journalist—the 2023 recipient of a National Magazine Award for best magazine feature—with bylines in New York magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Readers Digest, Toronto Life, and The Globe and Mail. Shea specializes in celebrity interviews with a list of high-profile subjects that includes Justin Trudeau, Meghan Markle, and Jake Gyllenhaal. Many of her features have been optioned for film and television, including a 2019 story about the NXIVM sex cult. Her 2015 feature on the Canadian con artist Albert Rosenberg inspired the 2022 documentary The Talented Mr. Rosenberg. Follow her on IG @cocoshea.