Lydia Polgreen being named as the next editor-in-chief of the influential Huffington Post sounds like great news for the news business, but not just because she’s a black woman. I mean, sure, that’s a good thing and it matters, but we should all know by now that being black isn’t enough.
Exhibit A? Ben Carson.
But judging by Polgreen’s comments following the announcement, this sounds like a journalist who’s ready to get to work in this new Age of Trump, and we need all the seasoned, sensible- and fearless hands on deck that we can round up.
From Huffpo:
Lydia Polgreen, a black woman, has been named as the next editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post, following founder Arianna Huffington, who was the first.
Polgreen, a New York Times associate masthead editor and editorial director of NYT Global, said that it was a hard decision to leave the New York Times but that she felt the editor-in-chief position was a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
“I feel like we’re 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.”
Here’s wishing much success to Polgreen.
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