Polgreen at the 2018 Committee to Protect Journalists International Press Freedom Awards
Born
Lydia Frances Polgreen
1975 (age 48–49)
United States
Alma mater
St. John's College Columbia University
Occupation
Journalist
Notable credit(s)
The Huffington Post The New York Times
Spouse
Candace Feit
Lydia Frances Polgreen (born 1975) is an American journalist. She is best known for having been the editor-in-chief of HuffPost.[1] She also spent about one year between 2021 and 2022 as the head of content for Gimlet Media.[2] Prior to that she was editorial director of NYT Global at The New York Times, and the West Africa bureau chief for the same publication, based in Dakar, Senegal, from 2005 to 2009. She also reported from India.[3][4] She spent much of her early career in Johannesburg, South Africa where she was The New York Times South African Bureau Chief as well. In 2022, after leaving Gimlet, she returned to The New York Times as an opinion columnist.[5]
She has received many honors and awards, among them, the 2009 Livingston Award for Excellence in International Reporting and, in 2011, the Medal for Excellence from Columbia University.[6]
^O'Connor, Lydia (6 March 2020). "Lydia Polgreen To Step Down As Editor-In-Chief Of HuffPost". huffpost.com. HuffPost. Archived from the original on 23 November 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
^"Gimlet Managing Director Lydia Polgreen Returning To Writing And The New York Times". Insideradio.com. 11 April 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-11-19. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
^John Koblin (October 21, 2008). "Times' Beijing Bureau Chief Takes On India". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on October 23, 2008. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
^"Photo from AP Photo". Billionaires.forbes.com. 2010-07-09. Archived from the original on November 25, 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-27.
^"Lydia Polgreen returns to The Times as an Opinion columnist". The New York Times Company. 2022-04-07. Archived from the original on 2022-04-10. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
^"Lydia Polgreen". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 26 March 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2010.
Lydia Frances Polgreen (born 1975) is an American journalist. She is best known for having been the editor-in-chief of HuffPost. She also spent about one...
ventures and was succeeded as editor-in-chief by LydiaPolgreen in December 2016. In April 2017, Polgreen announced the company would rebrand, changing its...
2004 "Painful legacy of Darfur's horrors: Children born of rape" by LydiaPolgreen, International Herald Tribune, 12 February 2005 "Who Are the Janjaweed...
time to time". Press Gazette. Albeanu, Catalina (29 August 2017). "LydiaPolgreen and Katharine Viner share how they got their start in journalism". Journalism...
14 June 2011. "ANIS Spices Facebook Page". Retrieved 9 October 2014. LydiaPolgreen (February 1, 2006). "A Taste of Ghana". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-05...
struggle to challenge India's caste system". ABC News. 27 June 2022. LydiaPolgreen (21 December 2011). "Scaling Caste Walls With Capitalism's Ladders in...
Encyclopædia Britannica. "Africa's Storied Colleges, Jammed and Crumbling," By LydiaPolgreen, The New York Times, 20 May 2007 Clark, Andrew Francis; Phillips, Lucie...
The New Humanitarian. 28 April 2003. Retrieved 27 February 2020. Polgreen, Lydia (10 December 2006). "On the Run as War Crosses Another Line in Africa"...
(Nuclear Exports)". BIS. Archived from the original on Feb 18, 2010. LydiaPolgreen (April 2, 2012). "Mali Coup Leaders Suffer Sanctions and Loss of Timbuktu"...
Press, 2006. p 97. Liberia: Radio Station Websites - RadioStationWorld LydiaPolgreen (August 4, 2006). "All the News That Fits: Liberia's Blackboard Headlines"...
Kashmir". Human Rights Watch. 24 August 2011. Retrieved 1 October 2012. LYDIAPOLGREEN (22 August 2011). "Mass Graves Hold Thousands, Kashmir Inquiry Finds"...
of OC homeless dies in jail. November 30, 2013". November 30, 2013. LydiaPolgreen (May 22, 2003). "Many Children, Many Moves, and a Grisly Find". The...
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government response in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina" Foreign Reporting LydiaPolgreen New York Times "for coverage of a under-reported war in Darfur in western...
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