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Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.

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Lydia Polgreen

I was educated in a deeply kind of un-politically-correct way. I went to St. John's College which is this kind of Great Books school which is equally popular with hardcore conservatives who want their kids to read the Great White Men canon and sort of free-thinking liberals like my parents.

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I think the real sort of decision moment for me was president Donald Trump election night and just realizing that there was something happening in the country and in the world that had a very deep relationship to the nature of the current media landscape and that this opportunity that was in front of me could be a place to try to work on that. To try to fix what was going wrong and, or at least make an attempt.

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To me, that's the foundational fact of my identity is that I'm a journalist and so it's hard to imagine putting anything else first.

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I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how people feel, otherwise you miss the story.

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The great tabloids were always driven by a sense of outrage, a sense of righteous indignation. . . and had this sensibility of, like, there are people out there that are trying to screw you - and we're going expose them for it.

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Anything that I'm doing I think I always come at it from an outsider perspective. The first like real front page story that I had for the Times was about how after decades of battles over public restrooms in New York City, effectively chain stores had become the public restroom of choice for New Yorkers, it's sort of a silly little thing, but coming as an outsider, I was like 'Oh this is actually really interesting. '

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