Lydia Polgreen, Head of Content, Gimlet Media
After spending nearly 15 years at the New York Times, where she served 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; in early 2020, she became head of content at Gimlet Media. She received the 2006 George Polk Award for foreign reporting and the 2008 Livingston Award for international reporting.