Lydia Polgreen

Lydia Polgreen (born 1975) is an award-winning American journalist with The Huffington Post. 

Lydia Frances Polgreen (born 1975) received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1997 from St. John's College, Maryland. In 2000, she earned a Master's of Science degree in Journalism form Columbia University in New York.

Polgreen has had an illustrious career in Journalism. Throughout her career, she has worked in significant capacity with prestigious newspapers and has won several laurels for her work.

• She worked with The New York Times from 2005 to 2016. She excelled in foreign reporting during her career with the Times.
• From 2005 to 2009, she was West Africa Bureau Chief. In February 2008 she covered the Battle of N'Djamena in Chad.
• From 2009 to 2011, she was a South Asia Correspondent.
• From 2012 to 2014, she became the Johannesburg Bureau Chief covering South Africa.
• She then was Deputy International Editor from 2014 to 2016.
• In December 2016, she took on the top editorial spot at The Huffington Post. She succeeded Arianna Huffington, who founded the site in 2005.

Following the Trump victory, Lydia, in an interview commented on her transition from the Times to the Huffington Post:

I think that the election of Donald Trump and the basic difficulty that the media had in anticipating it tells us something really profound about the echo chamber in which we live, the ways in which journalism has failed to reach beyond its own inner limits.

• In 2007, she won "Young Global Leader" award from World Economic Forum, and "Overseas Press Club Award" by Overseas Press Club. In the same year, she also received "George Polk Award" by Long Island University, for her coverage of ethnic violence in Sudan's Darfur region.
• In 2009, Polgreen won "Livingston Award for Foreign Reporting" from the University of Michigan, for International Reporting for "The Spoils," a series on resource conflicts in Africa.
• In 2011, she received "University Medal for Excellence" from Columbia University.