Lydia Polgreen

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Lydia Frances Polgreen (born 1975) is an American journalist who has been the West Africa bureau chief of "The New York Times", based in Dakar, Senegal, since 2005 [ [http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/alumni/associations/association/journal/alumnijournal-winter2005.pdf "Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Journal". Winter 2005.] Accessed 20 February 2007.] .

Polgreen graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2000 and St. John's College in 1997. One of her professors at Columbia was Ari L. Goldman [ [http://www.arigoldman.com/students.html Ari L. Goldman - Students] ] .

In 2006, Polgreen was awarded a George Polk Award, awarded annual by Long Island University, in foreign reporting for her coverage of ethnic violence in Sudan's Darfur region.

In February 2008 she covered the Battle of N'Djamena in Chad. The French freelance photographer Benedicte Kurzen illustrates some of her work in N'Djamena.

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