Lydia Polgreen


Lydia Frances Polgreen is a journalist, who is currently the head of content for Gimlet Media. From 2016 until March 2020 she was the editor-in-chief of HuffPost. 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 2005–2009. 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.

Biography

Polgreen graduated from St. John's College in 1997 and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2000.
She started working at the New York Times, since 2002.
In 2006, she received a George Polk Award 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 replace the founder of The Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington, as the editor-In-Chief.

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.