Journalism Quotes by Lydia Polgreen

11 Journalism quotes by Lydia Polgreen

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Lydia Polgreen’s take on the newsroom world comes through clearly in this short set. The excerpts showcase her blend of curiosity and pragmatism, making it a handy starter for anyone wanting to sense her voice on the press.

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To me, that's the foundational fact of my identity is that I'm a journalist and so it's hard to imagine putting anything…

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The great tabloids were always driven by a sense of outrage, a sense of righteous indignation...and had this sensibility of, like, there…

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To me the tabloid sensibility, in the best sense of the word, and I think people as like tabloids have receded as…

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I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how…

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I think we need to reckon in a very serious way with the emotional content of news and the way that people…

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Two of the last four executive editors at the New York Times were Johannesburg bureau chiefs at some point, Bill Keller and…

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We've traditionally thought of media on this traditional left/right spectrum and most media's kind of clustered in the center and I think…

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I think everybody's talking about like facts and truth and you know like that 'We're here to fact check' and all of…

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The New York Times I think really is the gold standard of a certain type of journalism and in some ways it's…

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To me the sort of like, the ethos, if you will, of like tabloid is like Daily News in the 1970s. It's…

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I think all of us in the pursuit of more perfect version of the truth and the story need to reckon with…

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My parents were adherents of the Baha'i faith, which is sort of, I can't think of the best way to describe it, but it…

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I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition.

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Jim Rich is many different things but he has a great combination of a kind of old school tabloid reporter and editor's sense for…

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I have a perhaps naive point of view informed by my own kind of snowflake-in-the-unique-sense rather than the political sense, personal story. I mean…

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The level of dependence on government among rural populations is actually extraordinary. They suffer even more when that assistance is taken away because they…

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