Lydia Polgreen Named Editor-In-Chief Of The Huffington Post

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Source: HuffPo

Lydia Polgreen, a New York Times associate masthead editor and editorial director of NYT Global, has been named editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post.

Polgreen, 41, will succeed Arianna Huffington, the news sites namesake co-founder who left the company in August to launch Thrive Global, a company and website focused on health and wellness.

In an interview, Polgreen said it was difficult leaving the Times, where she spent nearly 15 years, but that the role at HuffPost was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

"I feel like were living in a moment right now where media has to fundamentally rethink its position vis-a-vis power," she said. "I think that the election of Donald Trump and the basic difficulty that the media had in anticipating it tells us something really profound about the echo chamber in which we live, the ways in which journalism has failed to reach beyond its own inner limits."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lydia-polgreen-huffington-post_us_5846ef54e4b0fe5ab693122b

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This is great news. Lydia is awesome (I'm biased because she's a friend of mine, but still, objectively she's awesome).

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1. Well yeah Lydia, but what about this observation.

"I think that the election of Donald Trump and the basic difficulty that the media had in anticipating it tells us something really profound about the echo chamber in which we live, the ways in which journalism has failed to reach beyond its own inner limits."

What if the election was stolen? I have this gut feeling that it was. How about you all?