
Lydia Polgreen, New York Times Opinion Columnist

After spending nearly 15 years at the New York Times as deputy international editor and bureau chiefs for West Africa, South Asia, and Johannesburg, Lydia Polgreen was named editor-in-chief of HuffPost in 2016, head of content at Gimlet Media in 2020, and New York Times Opinion Columnist in 2022. She received the 2006 George Polk Award for foreign reporting and the 2008 Livingston Award for international reporting.