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| Tim Metz |
Tim Metz, who joined Hill & Knowlton in 1989 after a 23-year career at the Wall Street Journal died Aug. 15. He was 86.
Metz exited the paper after he published “Black Monday: The Catastrophe of October 19, 1987...and Beyond.”
He joined Susan Hullin in 2001 to form Hullin & Metz, a strategic communications advisory, media relations, financial PR and crisis shop; and launched the Metz Group in 2011.
Metz is survived by his wife Geraldine Fabrikant, who was a New York Times reporter, and their three children and four grandchildren.
He served on the board of advisors of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program at Columbia Journalism School, and on the board of directors of the New York Foundation for Senior Citizens.
A memorial service will be held for Metz at St. Ignatius Loyola Church on Park Ave in Manhattan.
Leslie Gottlieb, who had a long history of helping nonprofits and charitable organizations tell their stories, passed away on July 15. She was 82.
Frank Ramos, who headed the PR department for the doomed-to-fail New York Jets for 39 years, died on Jan. 27. He was 87.
He practiced PR for 70 years. We were friends for 30. Here's the wizard I knew.
Andy Stanton, who was director of finance at Stanton PR, died Nov. 12 in New York. He was 39.
Kassie Canter, a media and entertainment PR veteran, died October 24 in New York. She was 67.
