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

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've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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