I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how people feel, otherwise you miss the story.
I think the real sort of decision moment for me was president Donald Trump election night and just realizing that there was something happening in th… - Lydia Polgreen
I think the real sort of decision moment for me was president Donald Trump election night and just realizing that there was something happening in th…
- Lydia Polgreen
I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition. - Lydia Polgreen
I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition.
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 empathy and solidarity rather than … - Lydia Polgreen
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 empathy and solidarity rather than …
The great tabloids were always driven by a sense of outrage, a sense of righteous indignation...and had this sensibility of, like, there are people o… - Lydia Polgreen
The great tabloids were always driven by a sense of outrage, a sense of righteous indignation...and had this sensibility of, like, there are people o…
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 the base material of… - Lydia Polgreen
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 the base material of…
To me we're living in this very profoundly non-idealogical time where the real divide is between people who have power and people who either don't ha… - Lydia Polgreen
To me we're living in this very profoundly non-idealogical time where the real divide is between people who have power and people who either don't ha…
I don't even know what being left wing means anymore. I feel that the left/right spectrum has been so fundamentally scrambled primarily by the politi… - Lydia Polgreen
I don't even know what being left wing means anymore. I feel that the left/right spectrum has been so fundamentally scrambled primarily by the politi…
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 else first. - Lydia Polgreen
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 else first.
I think, I just always carry this kind of happy sense of being able to come into any situation and know that I don't exactly fit in, but I can make a… - Lydia Polgreen
I think, I just always carry this kind of happy sense of being able to come into any situation and know that I don't exactly fit in, but I can make a…
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