30 Facts About Joseph Livingston

Joseph Arnold Livingston was a business journalist and economist known for his long-running syndicated economics column for which he received a Pulitzer Prize and three Gerald Loeb Awards.

Joseph Livingston created the Livingston Survey, a twice-yearly economic forecast survey he personally conducted from 1946 until his death in 1989.

Joseph Livingston returned to New York City to begin his journalism career as a cub reporter for the Brooklyn Eagle.

In September 1929, Joseph 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.

Joseph Livingston realized his university education was insufficient for making informed investment decisions, so he took night classes at the City College of New York from 1929 to 1931 to study investing, accounting, statistics, and economic history.

Joseph Livingston joined the New York Daily Investment News, rising to executive editor in 1931, and wrote the "Talking It Over" column.

In 1935, Joseph Livingston joined Business Week as an editor and economist.

Joseph Livingston wrote "The Trend" and "Business Outlook" columns until his departure in 1942.

Joseph Livingston extracted the real story from the data, then presented it in a way that the chart and captions clearly expressed everything that was part of the real story and nothing else.

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

Joseph Livingston worked for the War Production Board to help start War Progress, an internal weekly report distributed among the various war agencies.

Joseph Livingston served as editor for the publication and became the economic assistant to Chief of Operations Hiland G Batchellor.

Joseph Livingston transferred to the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion in 1945 to help compile analytical and statistical reports for the government.

Joseph Livingston conducted the survey, which came to be known as the Livingston Survey, every six months for the rest of his life.

Joseph Livingston continued writing the syndicated column for the rest of his life.

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

Joseph Livingston toured factories and interviewed government officials at all levels.

Joseph Livingston's research resulted in a six-part series entitled "The Powerful Pull of the Dollar" that earned him the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.

Joseph Livingston stepped down as financial editor in 1968 to focus on outside writing, but continued as an economics columnist.

In 1972, Joseph Livingston left the Bulletin for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he continued writing his economics columns and co-wrote a regular chess column.

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

Joseph Livingston contributed the "Business Page" feature on WCAU radio's Evening Edition from 1962 to 1964.

Joseph Livingston met Rosalie Logise Frenger while they were both students at the University of Michigan.

Joseph Livingston was a correspondent for the El Paso Times and the El Paso Herald, and was a teacher at the Las Cruces Union High School.

Joseph Livingston resumed investing his investment club's money in 1932 and 1933.

Joseph Livingston graduated from Westtown School and Middlebury College, and received her master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Joseph Livingston received her PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973.

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

Joseph Livingston helped organize the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, serving two terms as its first president in 1964 and 1965.

On December 25,1989, Joseph Livingston collapsed while preparing to leave his farm.