Joseph Livingston

Joseph Arnold Livingston was an American business journalist and economist known for his long-running syndicated economics column for which he received a Pulitzer Prize and three Gerald Loeb Awards. He created the Livingston Survey, a twice-yearly economic forecast survey he personally conducted from 1946 until his death in 1989.

Early life

Livingston was born on February 10, 1905, in New York City. After graduating from De Witt Clinton High School, he studied English at the University of Michigan, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1925. By late 1927, he was a staff reporter at The Brooklyn Daily Times. In the second half of the 1920s, he also worked at the Queens County News, The Bronx Home News, and Fairchild's Daily News Record.

Financial and economics reporter, editor In September 1929, Livingston began an investment club with some of his university friends, which quickly became underwater when the Great Crash shook the stock market a month later.

World War II Livingston put his journalism career on hold in 1942 to work as an economist for the U.S. government during World War II.

Livingston was hired by The Philadelphia Bulletin in 1948 to be their financial editor.

A 1970 column reporting on his six-week investigation into Howard Butcher and suspicious transactions involving Penn Central stock earned Livingston the 1971 Gerald Loeb award for newspapers.

Radio

In 1961, Livingston recorded the miniseries The Evolution of the American Economic Revolution for the Voice of America.

Personal life Livingston met Rosalie Logise Frenger while they were both students at the University of Michigan. Rosalie, born October 19, 1903, in Las Cruces, New Mexico Territory, was the daughter of Clara Jacoby and New Mexico District Judge Numa C. Frenger. She was a correspondent for the El Paso Times and the El Paso Herald, and was a teacher at the Las Cruces Union High School. They lived in the New York City area until 1942, when they moved to the Washington, D.C., area. She graduated from Westtown School and Middlebury College, and received her master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973.

Livingston served as the president of The Franklin Inn Club in 1955.

On December 25, 1989, Livingston collapsed while preparing to leave his farm. 1965 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting 1967 John Hancock Award for Excellence in business and financial writing, syndicated and news service writers 1968 John Hancock Award for Excellence in business and financial writing, syndicated and news service writers 1973 John Hancock Award for Excellence in business and financial reporting, syndicated and news service writers 1974 Gerald Loeb Memorial Award 1975 Bache Halsey Stuart Award from the Overseas Press Club 1976 Gerald Loeb award for Columns/Editorial 1981 Overseas Press Club award for Best Business News Reporting from Abroad

Selected bibliography

The American Stockholder. 1958. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company. 290 pages. "The Powerful Pull of the Dollar" series – winner of the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting "East Europe Asks Capitalistic Aid", November 8, 1964 "Communists Borrow Capitalist Techniques", November 15, 1964 "Yugoslavia Treads Capitalistic Byways", November 22, 1964 "West Europe Is Chessboard of Geopolitics", November 29, 1964 "Russians Seek Trade, But on Equal Status", December 6, 1964 "Trade Arguments Called Fallacies", December 13, 1964 "Howard Butcher: Broker With Too Much At Once", December 6, 1970 – winner of the 1971 Geral Loeb award for Newspapers "The Second Battle of Great Britain" series – winner of the 1975 Bache Halsey Stuart Award and the 1976 Gerald Loeb award for Columns/Editorial "Britain Faces Second Battle", July 13, 1975 "Wage Freeze Pivotal in Second Battle of Britain", July 14, 1975 "Status of the Pound Shows Monetary Optimism", July 15, 1975 "Britain's Industrial Troubles Keep Growing Worse", July 16, 1975 "The 'Second Battle of Britain' Must Be Won, Too", July 17, 1975 "English Lessons for America" series – winner of the 1981 Overseas Press Club award for Best Business News Reporting from Abroad "English Lessons for America", August 2, 1981 "U.S., Britain are alarmingly alike in lag", August 3, 1981 "The 'Iron Lady' doesn't bend to labor", August 4, 1981 "Postwar issue: Unemployment versus inflation", August 5, 1981 "What an economy needs: The moral equivalent of war". August 6, 1981