Long-time Lowcountry Journalist & Author Releases “2020” Chronicle

Charleston-based journalist and author Skip Johnson recently released his latest book, The Year 2020: A Day-by-Day Diary of a Debacle, is now available online and can be purchased in digital formats from all major booksellers.

The eBook, which retails for $4.99, is exactly what its name implies: Johnson spent 4-6 hours every day (except one) from late February 2020 to Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20th, 2021, poring over several major news sources and condensing the most important events of the day into a readable form.

“My original intent was to chart the presidential campaign because it was certain to become one of the most important elections in American history – which, of course, it did,” Johnson said. “But three days after I began came word that a strange new disease had been discovered in China that could become a pandemic, so I added that. Then came the floods, the droughts, the storms and forest fires that broke all existing records, so I included them, too.”

You can learn more here.

About Skip Johnson

Skip Johnson is a retired multiple award-winning newspaper reporter, columnist and editor, and author of three books. As a reporter, he helped cover the desegregation of Alabama for The Associated Press, and later became chief political writer for The Orlando Sentinel-Star, state capital bureau chief and political columnist for The Tampa Tribune, and religion editor and columnist for The News and Courier of Charleston. He also served as night city editor of The News and Courier, city editor of The Herald-Statesman of Yonkers, N.Y., and managing editor of The Standard-Times of New Bedford, Mass.

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