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Lydia Frances Polgreen (born 1975) is a journalist who is the editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post. She was previously the editorial director of NYT Global at The New York Times, and the West Africa bureau chief for the same publication, based in Dakar, Senegal, from 2005-2009. She has won many awards, most recently the Livingston award in 2009. She has also reported from India. She was then based in Johannesburg, South Africa where she was The New York Times Johannesburg Bureau Chief.
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Biography
Polgreen graduated from St. John's College in 1997 and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2000.
In 2006, she received a George Polk Award in Foreign Reporting from Long Island University for her coverage of ethnic violence in the Darfur Region of Sudan.
In February 2008, she covered the Battle of N'Djamena in Chad. Some of her work in N’Djamena was illustrated by the French freelance photographer Benedicte Kurzen.
In April 2016, she became the editorial director of NYT Global for The New York Times. On December 6, 2016, she left The New York Times to replace the founder of The Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington., as Editor-In-Chief.
Personal life
Polgreen is married to Candace Feit, a documentary photographer.