Lydia Polgreen

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Lydia Polgreen
Born
Lydia Frances Polgreen

1975
Occupationjournalist
Notable creditThe New York Times

Lydia Frances Polgreen (born 1975) is an American journalist who has been the West Africa bureau chief of The New York Times, based in Dakar, Senegal, since 2005[1].

Polgreen graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2000. One of her professors there was Ari L. Goldman[2].

In 2006, Polgreen was awarded a George Polk Award, awarded annual by Long Island University, in foreign reporting for her coverage of ethnic violence in Sudan's Darfur region.

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