Courtney Sebesta

Courtney Sebesta began her professional journalism career 24 years ago at the Austin American-Statesman. She has held the titles of digital editor, reporter, senior editor and managing editor at the Statesman. She also led 7 national digital teams across the Gannett/USA Today Network. Her team collaborations have won Edward R. Murrow Awards, the prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for the Gold Medal for meritorious Public Service for Uvalde mass shooting coverage. In addition, her teams garnered numerous Online News Association Online Journalism Awards, an International News Media Association Award, Local Media Association awards, multiple Headliners Awards and Texas Managing Editors awards. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.