Matthew Hiltzik has served eleven years on the NYCEDC board — the first PR pro named to that seat. The precedent has aged into a governance pattern.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's 2016–2024 divorce was the longest celebrity PR case in modern Hollywood. Hiltzik Strategies for Pitt; Arminka Helic and Chloe Dalton in London for Jolie. Eight years of separate camps, weaponized legal filings, and strategic silence. The case study, the publicists, the lessons.
Mayor Bill de Blasio named Hiltzik Strategies founder Matthew Hiltzik to the NYCEDC board — the first public relations professional appointed to that seat.