Alan Weinkrantz (1955-2016) was an American PR executive, Israeli startup-ecosystem ambassador, and contributing columnist at Times of Israel. He was killed in Tel Aviv on June 18, 2016 when a car drove into the restaurant where he was dining.
Steve Simon, who founded SSPR in 1978 and built one of America's longest-running independent PR agencies, died January 4, 2015 in Chicago at age 67.
Charley J. Levine — Jerusalem-based communications pro, founder of Lone Star Communications, longtime spokesman to Israeli institutions and leaders, and one of the most respected figures in Israeli-American PR — died November 16, 2014, at 65.
Harold Burson reported from Nuremberg at 24. Founded Burson-Marsteller in 1953 with Bill Marsteller. Died January 10, 2020, age 98. Built the doctrine that PR is a management function, not a publicity function \u2014 sixty years before the rest of the industry caught up.
Daniel J. Edelman (1920–2013) founded Edelman PR in Chicago on October 1, 1952 and built it into the world's largest independent public relations firm. He refused every acquisition offer from the holding companies across three decades and kept the firm in family hands. The EPR In Memoriam canonical record.
The news that one of America's great true heroes has died hits hard, especially for the Baby Boomer generation. Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, died at age 82 yesterday. In a world of make believe superheroes and glam celebrities, the passing of real courage and humility is truly noted.
Tina Turner is the most consequential career-rebuild artist in the history of popular music — and her narrative-ownership playbook is the case study every reputation strategist should study. At 72, retired to Switzerland, what she has built is a communications discipline no artist of comparable global reach has matched.