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 important type of journalism, this chronicle of the biggest and most important stories of our time… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
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 had for the Times was about how after decades of battles over public restrooms in New York City, effectively chain stores had become the public restroom of choice for New Yorkers, it's sort of a silly… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share
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 organization that thinks of its mission to speak directly to people who are kind of , the people who are sort of the foundation of the American workforce or were at one time. What I love… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share
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 pay ... they're very interested in you know, 'Wait, are there going to be death panels.' But that's all a creation of this like hothouse media and politics environment. So maybe if humanism is an ideology… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share
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 sort of has the same relationship to Islam that Christianity has to Judaism, and it's a kind of a universalist creed and missionaries aren't paid. You're essentially expected to go out and find a job and… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share
I think all of us in the pursuit of more perfect version of the truth and the story need to reckon with what we bring to the story, and I think that I'm confronting that in a very real way everyday. I'm extremely proud of who I am and it's nice to see it celebrated, but if someone were to… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share
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 I feel like my experiences are so hard to map onto any kind of generalized identity. For example, I'm a black person, but I come from a very particular black experience which is not unlike the… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share
The level of dependence on government among rural populations is actually extraordinary. They suffer even more when that assistance is taken away because they don't have access to the economic dynamism of cities. So if there are ways to tell stories that help people in rural areas see their kind of mutual need for care, that to me is the… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share
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
