Quotes by Lydia Polgreen

Lydia Polgreen

Ability to have that sort of feedback loop with your readers to me felt incredibly powerful.

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Anything that I’m doing I think I always come at it from an outsider perspective. The first like real front page story that I had for the Times was about how after decades of battles over public restrooms in New York City, effectively chain stores had become the public restroom of choice for New Yorkers, it’s sort of a silly little thing, but coming as an outsider, I was like ‘Oh this is actually really interesting.’

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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 a sense of division. In my most grandiose moments I think of HuffPost as a platform that makes solidarity possible, that really thinking about the emotional content of stories is a way to help people who think, or who have been manipulated to think, that they’re interests are opposed to one another, that they actually are aligned in a fundamental way and they’re actually in the same boat.

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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 politics around globalization – and you saw it in Brexit, you saw it in the French election, you see it in our election, it’s happening everywhere.

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I have a perhaps naive point of view informed by my own kind of snowflake-in-the-unique-sense rather than the political sense, personal story. I mean I feel like my experiences are so hard to map onto any kind of generalized identity. For example, I’m a black person, but I come from a very particular black experience which is not unlike the experience of the Barack Obama. I have an African mother and a white father and I feel like I have a different experience of being a black person as a result of that identity than someone who is from the descendants of slaves.

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I have this very kind of like heterodox idea of what an education is, what underpins identity. I don’t think I’m very easily pigeon holed in any of those boxes, so I confront this. I have a staff full of young people who came up in a very different tradition and who feel very fired up about the big identity battles. I listen and I try to navigate them, but I don’t find them mapping onto my life in a personal way which is, which is hard.

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I think all of us in the pursuit of more perfect version of the truth and the story need to reckon with what we bring to the story, and I think that I’m confronting that in a very real way everyday. I’m extremely proud of who I am and it’s nice to see it celebrated, but if someone were to ask me to list in order the biography, you know journalist comes first.

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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 journalism. You cannot have journalism without facts and truth. But if facts and truth were what actually you know sort of moved people’s lives and moved their decision-making like the election would have had a different outcome.

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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.

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I think I’m this sort of perpetual outsider, I grew up most of my life in countries that were neither where I was born nor where either of my parents were from. I was part of a weird religion that nobody had heard of.

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Quotes by Lydia Polgreen

Lydia Polgreen

Ability to have that sort of feedback loop with your readers to me felt incredibly powerful.

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 politics around globalization – and you saw it in Brexit, you saw it in the French election, you see it in our election, it’s happening everywhere.

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 I’m this sort of perpetual outsider, I grew up most of my life in countries that were neither where I was born nor where either of my parents were from. I was part of a weird religion that nobody had heard of.

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