Bob Dorf Dies at 74
Tue, Dec. 12, 2023
By Kevin McCauley
Bob Dorf, who founded his own firm and then ran Dorf & Stanton with Alex Stanton, died Dec. 2. He was 74.
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Bob Dorf, who founded his own firm and then ran Dorf & Stanton with Alex Stanton, died Dec. 2. He was 74.
Mark Weiner, research guru and a leader in PR measurement, died on Dec. 10. He was 68.
Joe Epley, who built his firm into one of the largest PR shops in the southeast and was president of PRSA, died Nov. 5. He was 85.
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Travel PR legend Morris Silver, who founded M. Silver Assocs. with his wife Virginia Sheridan, died Sept. 24.
James Hoge, who was editor of the Chicago Sun-Times and New York Daily News, died on Sept. 19. He was 87.
Legendary PR man Bob Cohn, who launched Cohn & Wolfe with Norman Wolfe in 1971, died in Tuscaloosa on July 4. He was 88.
Sandra Werth Harbrecht Ratchford, who was CEO of Paul Werth Associates, died June 18 after a battle with cancer. She was 73.
LEVICK founder and CEO Richard S. Levick passed away April 11 due to cancer. He was 65.
Howard Bragman, a top Los Angeles celebrity rep and crisis counselor, died on Feb. 11 from acute monocytic leukemia. He was 66.
Jeff Kriendler, the public voice of Pan American World Airlines during its last turbulent ten years of existence, died Sept. 3 after suffering from several serious illnesses over the years. He was 76.
Robert Jeffrey Thompson, who founded Thompson Communication Breakthroughs, died on September 12 in Clemmons, NC at the age of 85.
Steve Haweeli, founder and president of WordHampton Public Relations, died August 23 from complications of COVID-19. He was 68.
Esther Buchsbaum, co-founder of Canada's energi PR, died May 14 after a battle with glioblastoma. She was 65.
Alan Kelly, who founded Applied Communications Group in 1992 in Silicon Valley, died April 13. He was 64.
Jim Dowling, the former CEO of Burson-Marsteller who played a key role in handling Johnson & Johnson’s Tylenol crisis, died Dec. 15. He was 90.
David Finn, a founding father of modern PR who launched Ruder Finn in 1948 with Bill Ruder, has died. He celebrated his 100th birthday on Aug. 30.
Bobby Zarem, the legendary press agent who represented Hollywood’s top celebrities, died Sept. 26 of complications from lung cancer. He was 84.
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Matt Zachowski, who co-founded Intermarket financial PR firm 35 years ago with Martin Mosbacher, died Sept. 12 after a long illness. He was 68.
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