Lydia Polgreen
Lydia Polgreen | |
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Polgreen at the 2018 Committee to Protect Journalists International Press Freedom Awards | |
| Born | Lydia Frances Polgreen 1975 (age 49–50) |
| 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 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. She spent much of her early career in Johannesburg, South Africa where she was The New York Times South African Bureau Chief as well. She was editor-in-chief of HuffPost from 2016 to 2020, after which she spent about one year between 2021 and 2022 as the head of content for Gimlet Media. In 2022, after leaving Gimlet, she returned to The New York Times as an opinion columnist.
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.