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Spotify Hires HuffPost Top Editor Lydia Polgreen as Gimlet’s Head of Content

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Journalism vet Lydia Polgreen resigned as HuffPost’s editor-in-chief after three years to join Spotify as head of content for podcast studio Gimlet.

In her role at Gimlet, Polgreen will be responsible for overseeing the entire slate including strategic planning and setting a creative vision for the studio.

She joined Verizon-owned HuffPost in December 2016 after more than a decade at the New York Times. Polgreen announced her move to Spotify’s Gimlet in a tweet, saying in part, “Gimlet has built the greatest audio team in the world, and I’m so lucky to have the chance to learn from them.” She said she’s been “an audio obsessive since I was a little expat kid glued to the shortwave radio in our kitchen in Kenya, yearning to connect with the

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