Lydia Polgreen Steps Down as Editor in Chief of HuffPost

She will leave the Verizon Media-owned company later this month

Huffpost editor in chief Lydia Polgreen announced today that she will step down from her role later this month to become Gimlet Media’s head of content.

Polgreen, a longtime New York Times reporter and editor before heading to HuffPost in 2017, will lead the podcasting company’s content strategy after it was snatched up by Spotify for an estimated $240 million in February 2019.

“I’m incredibly grateful to my extraordinary colleagues, and to the leadership of Verizon Media, which has championed HuffPost at a time when aggressive journalism that holds power to account is more necessary and more under threat than ever,” Polgreen said in a statement.

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