Jay Levin

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Jay Levin
Born1943 (age 8081)
Occupation(s)Newspaper editor, writer, entrepreneur
Known for LA Weekly

Jay Levin is an American journalist who was co-founder, editor and CEO of the LA Weekly , one of the seminal newspapers of the weekly alternative press in the United States, until 1992.

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Currently he is founding President of The Big EQ Campaign, a non-profit organization that has undertaken a mass marketing campaign called EQuip Our Kids! to mobilize the public to mandate that social and emotional learning (SEL) skills be included in every schools curriculum. He is also chair of the California Social-Emotional Learning Alliance, an assemblage of educators and education and grassroots organizations that advocates for universal statewide SEL from pre-school through high school.

Biography

Early life

Levin was born in New York, the son of a tool and die maker.

LA Weekly

Jay Levin is best known as the co-founder of the LA Weekly , of which he was editor-in-chief and president for many years before selling what his team had grown to be the largest and most successful city weekly in the country. Levin put together an investment group that included actor Michael Douglas, Burt Kleiner, Joe Benadon and Pete Kameron. [1] Levin retained many of the writers he had earlier brought to the Los Angeles Free Press and hired Joie Davidow to edit the arts and entertainment section. The publication's first issue featured a group of female comedians, including the then-little known Sandra Bernhard, on its cover. Subsequent issues featured exposés on the Los Angeles basin's air quality and U.S. interventionism in Central America. The LA Weekly was also notable for its coverage of independent cinema and the Los Angeles music scene. Davidow produced a comprehensive calendar section and explored undiscovered fashion districts, discovering new designers.

In 1985, the LA Weekly launched a glossy magazine, L.A. Style, which Davidow edited. L.A. Style was sold to American Express Publishing in 1988 and merged with BUZZ magazine in 1993. [2]

By 1990, the LA Weekly achieved a circulation of 165,000, making it the largest urban weekly in the U.S.

Post-LA Weekly

Levin stepped down as president of the LA Weekly in 1992 in order to found a progressive cable TV network and was succeeded by Michael Sigman as publisher and Kit Rachlis as editor. The newspaper was sold to Stern Publishing, owner of the Village Voice, in 1994; in October 2005, it was sold to the Phoenix, Arizona-based Village Voice Media. In September 2012, it was transferred to the Denver-based Voice Media Group in a management buyout. [3]

Levin founded the start-up progressive channel, Planet Central TV, and later a website and magazine called Real Talk L.A. [4]

Recent career

For the last 20 years Levin has split his time between starting, growing or turning around media properties such as TheFix.com; and on life coaching focused on teaching life mastery and helping people reorient their lives, careers and relationships without spending years in therapy. Most recently he has been working with 15 to 20 CEOs on becoming socially conscious and effective managers while helping them elevate the bottom-line performance of their businesses and grow their companies.

Based on his knowledge of the positive effects of Life skills training, Levin early in 2016 launched The Big EQ Campaign to galvanize the public around schools including daily curriculum education for students and staff in emotional management and in relationship and co-creativity social skills – to the profound benefit of children, teens, adults, the schools themselves, and society and business (the economy) as a whole. The term for the training he provides is described in academic circles as “Social and Emotional Learning,” known as SEL. Over the years Levin has also began offering courses to hundreds of people in Life Elevation, relationships and leadership. [5]

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References

  1. "L.A. Weekly Founder Jay Levin on the vision that started it all". L.A. Weekly (December 4, 2008).
  2. Nancy Yoshihara, "Chic L.A. Style Magazine Sold to American Express," Los Angeles Times May 11, 1988.
  3. "LA Weekly, OC Weekly being sold to Voice Media," L.A. Biz (September 24, 2012).
  4. ""Former LA Weekly Publisher Jay Levin Launches Real Talk Media Group."". Archived from the original on 2007-08-29. Retrieved 2010-03-24.
  5. "Home". jaylevin.com.