I think, I just always carry this kind of happy sense of being able to come into any situation and know that… — Lydia Polgreen Fit Copy Share Image
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… — Lydia Polgreen Identity Copy Share Image
I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition. — Lydia Polgreen Ambition Copy Share Image
Ability to have that sort of feedback loop with your readers to me felt incredibly powerful. — Lydia Polgreen Ability Copy Share Image
I think we need to reckon in a very serious way with the emotional content of news and the way that people… — Lydia Polgreen Emotional 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… — Lydia Polgreen Compliment Copy Share Image
To me the tabloid sensibility, in the best sense of the word, and I think people as like tabloids have receded as… — Lydia Polgreen Journalism 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… — Lydia Polgreen Ask me Copy Share Image
I don't even know what being left wing means anymore. I feel that the left/right spectrum has been so fundamentally scrambled primarily… — Lydia Polgreen Election Copy Share Image
I think I'm this sort of perpetual outsider, I grew up most of my life in countries that were neither where I… — Lydia Polgreen Country 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… — Lydia Polgreen Gold 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… — Lydia Polgreen Journalism Copy Share Image
I have this very kind of like heterodox idea of what an education is, what underpins identity. I don't think I'm very… — Lydia Polgreen Battle 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,… — Lydia Polgreen Christianity 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… — Lydia Polgreen Creation 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… — Lydia Polgreen Daily news 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… — Lydia Polgreen Battle Copy Share Image
Once I came out in college I just have always been out and at work with pretty much everybody. My wife and… — Lydia Polgreen About yourself 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… — Lydia Polgreen Care 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… — Lydia Polgreen Different 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… — Lydia Polgreen Balance 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.… — Lydia Polgreen Barack Copy Share Image
I was educated in a deeply kind of un-politically-correct way. I went to St. John's College which is this kind of Great… — Lydia Polgreen Book Copy Share Image
To me we're living in this very profoundly non-idealogical time where the real divide is between people who have power and people… — Lydia Polgreen People Copy Share Image
The great tabloids were always driven by a sense of outrage, a sense of righteous indignation...and had this sensibility of, like, there… — Lydia Polgreen Driven Copy Share Image
I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how… — Lydia Polgreen Emotion Copy Share Image
My father was very much a child of the counterculture movement and was drawn to the idea of alleviating poverty in the… — Lydia Polgreen Children Copy Share Image
I think the real sort of decision moment for me was president Donald Trump election night and just realizing that there was… — Lydia Polgreen Country Copy Share Image
India's notoriously difficult. It's visa routine is notoriously difficult to get a residency permit and all that stuff, so that threw up… — Lydia Polgreen All kinds Copy Share Image
When I first signed up for a Twitter account - I was to say it was in 2007, people are going to… — Lydia Polgreen Ironic Copy Share Image
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… — Lydia Polgreen George w Copy Share Image
