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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.
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.
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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.
Leo Pearlstein, the “king of culinary PR,” died on Sept. 10 in Los Angeles at the age of 104.
