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, which at the Times is very young, I had the temerity to put my hand up for that job. I don't think I slept a single night of those six weeks that I spent in Johannesburg. It was an unbelievable experience, and I think I did okay.
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 …
- 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 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…
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.
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…
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…
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, 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…
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 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…
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