Lydia Polgreen, the editor in chief of HuffPost, will be live from Recode’s Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, Calif., on Monday, Feb. 12 at 3:20 pm PT / 6:20 pm ET.
Polgreen was named editor in chief of HuffPost in December 2016 after nearly 15 years at the New York Times, where she led an initiative to expand its international readership. At HuffPost, Polgreen is trying to remake a publisher that many people still connect with founder Arianna Huffington. She’s overhauling the newsroom and reaching out to new readers who’ve been ignored by the big news publishers. All of that as she navigates the Verizon/Oath/AOL/Yahoo media experiment.
Update: If you’d prefer to listen to the interview as a podcast, you can find it on Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, or in the embedded audio player, below:
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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