Two of the last four executive editors at the New York Times were Johannesburg bureau chiefs at some point, Bill Keller and Joe Lelyveld. This is a very prestigious post and I was like I don't know 28 years old,… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
Anything that I'm doing I think I always come at it from an outsider perspective. The first like real front page story that I… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
To me the sort of like, the ethos, if you will, of like tabloid is like Daily News in the 1970s. It's a news… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
I think everybody's talking about like facts and truth and you know like that 'We're here to fact check' and all of that, that's… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
Ideology to me is fundamentally is an elite pursuit. I mean most people are just not all that interested in single payer vs. government… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
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… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
I think all of us in the pursuit of more perfect version of the truth and the story need to reckon with what we… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition. — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
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… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
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… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
The level of dependence on government among rural populations is actually extraordinary. They suffer even more when that assistance is taken away because they… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
The New York Times I think really is the gold standard of a certain type of journalism and in some ways it's the most… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
For us what we're trying to do is find the right balance of creating a space for emotion that leads to a sense of… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
