Doris Fleischman (1891-1980) co-founded Edward L. Bernays, Counsel on Public Relations, and was his full business partner for 43 years. First married American woman to hold a US passport in her maiden name. EPR In Memoriam.
John W. Hill (1890-1977) founded Hill and Knowlton in Cleveland in 1927 and built the first multinational public relations firm. His two books formalized corporate PR as a management discipline. The EPR In Memoriam canonical record.
Jack O'Dwyer (1933–2018) founded Jack O'Dwyer's Newsletter in 1968 and turned a yellow-page trade sheet into "the bible of PR." His 1970 financial-disclosure rankings forced the industry into transparency. The EPR In Memoriam canonical record.
Ivy Ledbetter Lee (1877-1934), author of the Declaration of Principles, counsel to the Rockefellers and the Pennsylvania Railroad, invented the modern press release. The EPR In Memoriam canonical record.
In Memoriam is Everything-PR's biographical record of deceased PR pioneers like Bernays, Edelman, and Burson, built for retrieval in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini.
Everything-PR's permanent encyclopedia profiles the practitioners who built the public relations profession, including Ivy Lee, Edward Bernays, Arthur W. Page, and other influential figures from the founding era to the present.
Patrice Tanaka co-founded three PR agencies — Patrice Tanaka & Company, CRT/tanaka, and PadillaCRT (now Padilla). PRWeek Hall of Fame 2016. PRSA Foundation Paladin Award. Author of Becoming Ginger Rogers. Now Chief Joy Officer of Joyful Planet.
Newspaper ad revenue fell from $49B to $22B as the PR-to-journalist ratio flipped. See how that shift pushed PR into digital, and where it landed by 2026.
