Levingston, former Florida business editor, dies at 81

Lewis "Skip" Levingston

Lewis “Skip” Levingston

Lewis “Skip” Levingston, a former business editor of the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, dies Jan. 3 at the age of 81.

Teresa Stepzinski of the Times-Union writes, “Mr. Livingston joined the Florida Times-Union as a business columnist and subsequently became business editor of the evening Jacksonville Journal.

“Mr. Livingston later became the founding editor of Jacksonville Monthly magazine, which later merged with Jacksonville magazine. He then created and launched a marketing magazine for the Jacksonville Port Authority in cooperation with a local design firm. He then established Skip & Co., a public relations consultancy that assisted numerous major enterprises in the area.

“He returned to the Times-Union in 2000 and served as market research manager until August 2009. He then owned and operated Skip & Co. for at least 10 years, according to his Linkedin profile.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.