Times Herald-Record executive editor Levine is dead at 54

Times Herald-Record
Mike Levine suffered the fatal heart attack on Sunday morning. “In a business increasingly ruled by the bottom line of dollars, Mike was guided by a different God: that heart,” writes Steve Israel. “He made sure the Record lived up to the words he often told young reporters: ‘Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable.’ Mike did just that.” He joined the Middletown, NY paper in 1980, left in 2001 to join ESPN the Magazine, then returned a year later. || Read the obituary, an editorial, staff memories, and the Legacy.com Guest Book.