HISTORY OF PR: JOHN HILL

I've been reading about the history of public relations and the people who've influenced the industry. I've been doing a lot of research on different professionals and someone I found really interested is John W. Hill.

After doing all the research, this is what I learned about John W. Hill.

He is the founder of the world's largest public relations firm. 

• Hill & Knowlton holds 2,000 employees in 80 offices in more than 40 countries
• The firm includes a long list of corporations including Texaco Inc., Warner-Lambert, Procter & Gamble, Gillette, Swiss Banks, the American Petroleum Institute and the Business Roundtable
• John Hill was the reason for the firm moving into European countries

He started Hill & Knowlton in an amazing city, CLEVELAND. 

• He was a former financial news reporter
• One of the first firms to give public relation guidance to businesses 
• Moved to New York to partner up with Don Knowlton and to open the headquarters 

Obviously, he was successful.

• He wrote two books about the business, "Corporate Public Relations" and "The Making of a Public Relations Man"
• He got his honors from public relations associations and a honorary degree from Boston University 
• Admirably skills, dignity and steadfast attachment to personal and professional standards 
• He was associated with the Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC) and the Tobacco Institute 

John W. Hill was a pioneer in the public relations industry. He had a two-sided goal for public relations of providing information in non-controversial situations and providing advocacy and persuasion when controversy exists. 

For more information, please use the links below.

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/18/archives/john-w-hill-86-dies-led-hill-knowlton-founder-of-the-worlds-largest.html

https://networks.h-net.org/node/24846/reviews/25642/laird-miller-voice-business-hill-knowlton-and-postwar-public-relations

https://www.hkstrategies.com/

http://facstaff.buffalostate.edu/smithrd/PR/pioneers.htm