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| Kassie Canter |
Kassie Canter, a media and entertainment PR veteran, died October 24 in New York. She was 67.
Launching her career at the legendary Robinson Lerer & Montgomery strategic communications shop, Canter went on to serve as executive VP-communications at Viacom Music and Entertainment.
In the interim, she worked as senior VP-communications at NBC and chief communications officer at Oxygen Media. At Oxygen, she helped develop the PR strategy connected to its $925M sale to NBCUniversal in 2007.
Following completion of that deal, Canter was an independent PR consultant, handling clients such as Lifetime, AMC Networks, Nickelodeon and The Weather Channel.
A “celebration of life” service for Canter was held October 27 at Riverside Memorial Chapel.
Donations in her name should go to the West Side Campaign Against Hunger.
Leo Pearlstein, the “king of culinary PR,” died on Sept. 10 in Los Angeles at the age of 104.
Tim Metz, who joined Hill & Knowlton in 1989 after a 23-year career at the Wall Street Journal died Aug. 15. He was 86.
Bill Murray, who had been with MikeWorldWide for 35 years (most recently as EVP/national director, public affairs), has passed away at 67 after a battle with cancer.
Peter Costiglio, a top corporate communications executive for more than 40 years, died March 17 after a long-battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. He was 76.
Howard Geltzer, who launched New York-based Geltzer & Co., which he ran with his wife, Sheila, died Jan. 7 from a cancer-related illness. He was 88.
