Lydia Frances Polgreen (born 1975) is an American journalist. She is best known for having been the
editor-in-chief
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of ''
HuffPost
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''. She also spent about one year between 2021 and 2022 as the head of content for
Gimlet Media
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. Prior to that she was editorial director of NYT Global at ''
The New York Times
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'', and the West Africa bureau chief for the same publication, based in
Dakar, Senegal
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, from 2005 to 2009. She won many awards, most recently the Livingston award in 2009. She also reported from India. She was then based in Johannesburg, South Africa where she was ''The New York Times'' Johannesburg Bureau Chief.
After leaving Gimlet, she returned to The New York Times as an opinion columnist.
Biography
Polgreen graduated from
St. John's College in 1997 and
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
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in 2000.
She started working at ''The New York Times'' in 2002.
In 2006, she received a
George Polk Award
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in Foreign Reporting from
Long Island University for her coverage of ethnic violence in the
Darfur region of
Sudan.
In February 2008, she covered the
Battle of N'Djamena in
Chad. Some of her work in N’Djamena was illustrated by the French freelance photographer Benedicte Kurzen.
In April 2016, she became the editorial director of NYT Global for ''The New York Times''.
On December 6, 2016, she left ''The New York Times'' to succeed the founder of ''
The Huffington Post
''HuffPost'' (formerly ''The Huffington Post'' until 2017 and sometimes abbreviated ''HuffPo'') is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions. The site offers news, satire, blogs, and original content, and ...
'',
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (née Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou, el, Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου ; born July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of '' Th ...
,
as editor-in-chief.
In 2021, she was named to
Fast Company's Queer 50 list.
Personal life
Polgreen is married to Candace Feit, a documentary photographer. In November 2017, Polgreen was nominated to ''
Out'' magazine's "OUT100" for 2017 in recognition of her work and her visibility. Polgreen's mother is originally from Ethiopia.
References
Further reading
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External links
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"WEBCAST: LYDIA POLGREEN, NEW NYT NEW DELHI CORRESPONDENT" MARCH 30, 2009
"Lydia Polgreen, NYT's West Africa bureau chief" ''Columbia Journalism'' podcast, 1/7/2009
"My Foreign Correspondent Hero: Lydia Polgreen" ''AAUW Dialog'', March 13, 2009
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1975 births
Living people
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
American women journalists
The New York Times writers
George Polk Award recipients
Place of birth missing (living people)
St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) alumni
American LGBT journalists
Livingston Award winners for International Reporting
21st-century American journalists
21st-century American women