- John Lansing, Who Led NPR, Dies At 67
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Sunday, August 25, 2024
Lansing was in charge during the pandemic. He sought to diversify t ...
- Pioneering Ad Woman Mary Wells Lawrence Dies At 95
MAD, Steve McClellan - Sunday, May 12, 2024
For a time, Wells Lawrence was the highest-paid woman executive on Madis ...
- Pop-Tart Inventor Leaves A Legacy
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Tanya Gazdik - Monday, February 19, 2024
Jerry Seinfeld directs, co-writes and stars in "Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story," whi ...
- Legendary Culture Critic Joan Acocella Dies At 78
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, January 8, 2024
Acocella wrote for "The New Yorker", "The New York Review Of Books ...
- RPA Agency Co-Founder Gerry Rubin Dies
MAD, Steve McClellan - Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Rubin and Larry Postaer left Needham Harper in 1986 to create t ...
- Publishing Figure Henry Marks Dies At 93
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Marks served a variety of publishers in sales and publishing roles, a ...
- Publisher Richard Ekstract Dies At 92
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Sunday, September 3, 2023
Ekstract gained a measure of cultural standing when he loaned a Norel ...
- Adobe Co-Founder John Warnock Dies At 82
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, August 21, 2023
John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Systems and inventor of the PDF, h ...
- Multicultural Advertising Pioneer Norma Orci Has Died
MAD, Steve McClellan - Monday, August 7, 2023
Norma and her husband Hector Orci co-founded La Agencia de Orci ...
- Former 'Parade' Publisher Carlo Vittorini Dies At 94
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, July 13, 2023
Vittorini was credited with raising both ad revenue and circulation of t ...
- Illustrator, Columnist Bruce McCall Dead At 87
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Tanya Gazdik - Sunday, May 7, 2023
Bruce McCall, whose career included stints at Campbell-Ewald, J. Walter Thompson a ...
- Jo Muse, 'Father of Multicultural Advertising,' Dies At 72
MAD, Steve McClellan - Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Muse co-founded Muse Cordero Chen, considered by many to be the fir ...
- Edward Meyer Longtime CEO At Grey Global Group Dies At 96
MAD, Steve McClellan - Wednesday, April 12, 2023
In 1956 he joined Grey Advertising the predecessor to Grey Global Grou ...
- Veteran Media Beat Reporter Jack Feuer Dies At 71
Marketing Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Monday, April 10, 2023
Feuer, who was most recently editorial director at UCLA, influenced multitudes ...
- Fashion Designer Paco Rabanne Dies
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Tanya Gazdik - Monday, February 6, 2023
Designer Paco Rabanne, who made his name with metallic space-age fashions, h ...
- Coke, McDonald's Jingle Composer Dies
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Tanya Gazdik - Monday, January 23, 2023
Ginny Redington Dawes, 77, a songwriter whose compositions included jingles for McDonald ...
- Long-Time WPP Executive Jeremy Bullmore Dies At 93
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Friday, January 6, 2023
The firm said he died peacefully at home. Bullmore had just retir ...
- Soccer Legend Pele Dies At 82
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Tanya Gazdik - Thursday, December 29, 2022
Brazilian soccer legend Pelé, 82 has died from complications related to colon cancer. "For mo ...
- 'Ms' Co-Founder Dorothy Pitman Hughes Dies At 84
Around the Net In Publishing, Ray Schultz - Sunday, December 11, 2022
Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a legendary Black feminist and co-founder of Ms magazine, has di ...
- Obit: Robert Simko, Co-Publisher Of 'The Broadsheet,' Dead At 68
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Sunday, November 27, 2022
Robert Simko, also a former "Adweek" photographer, died on November 10. ...
- Legendary Art Director George Lois Dies At 91
Around the Net In Publishing, Ray Schultz - Sunday, November 20, 2022
George Lois, the art director known for his Esquire covers that rebuk ...
- Legendary Hearst Editor Ellen Levine Dies At 79
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, November 7, 2022
Levine scored many accomplishments during her years as editor in chief ...
- Former Ogilvy, WPP Executive Tro Piliguian Dies At 75
MAD, Steve McClellan - Tuesday, October 18, 2022
A native of Egypt Piliguian ran Ogilvy's Canadian and North American operatio ...
- Ad Legend Dan Wieden, Co-Founder Of Wieden + Kennedy, Dies At 77
MAD, Steve McClellan - Monday, October 3, 2022
Wieden and his partner David Kennedy formed W+K on April Fool's D ...
- Gorbachev's Pizza Hut Ad Resurfaces After His Death
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Tanya Gazdik - Wednesday, August 31, 2022
The death of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has prompted the resurfacing ...
- Auto, Tech Industries Lose Highly Regarded Executive
Marketing Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Friday, May 27, 2022
Flynn, 53, worked in marketing at automotive companies before moving to t ...
- Obit: Long-Time Agency Media Exec And Expert On Black Consumer Touchpoints Linda Jefferson, Dead At 69
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, May 18, 2022
"Linda was the consummate media maven, colleague, mentor and friend," said F ...
- Longtime Ad Exec, Country Singer Dies
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Tanya Gazdik - Monday, April 4, 2022
Longtime agency executive Bill Fries, best known for turning an ad campai ...
- Legendary Direct Marketer Joe Sugarman Dies At 83
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, March 28, 2022
Sugarman sold BluBlocker sunglasses in early TV infomercials, and was known f ...
- Obit: Beloved Media Services Exec Russell Zingale, Dead At 62
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, February 28, 2022
Zingale, who was inducted as a MediaPost All Star in 2021, l ...