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The Halo Effect: Why Attractiveness Matters in PR

Doctor Spin

The Halo Effect is intriguing—and ethically challenging in PR. Have you ever considered choosing a brand spokesperson based on their overall good looks and charisma? Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1 Nisbett, R., & Wilson, T. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35, 250–256. Halo Effect.

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Meet the Media: John Hitch, Editor of Fleet Maintenance

Bianchi Biz Blog

Previously I was senior editor at sister brand Fleet Owner, which is geared toward fleet executives and other transportation industry leaders. The best part was discovering these were two regular guys who had a passion and strong work ethic, and put in 15+ years of work to get to that point. My pathway was very typical. I used the G.I.

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The four Ps of public relations leadership

PR Conversations

Our professional codes of ethics say that ultimately our role is to serve society and sometimes that is seen as being in conflict with the interests of the organisations that we work for day to day. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Communication Management. Here are the four P cornerstones where my thinking sits right now.

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Maxim Behar for “24 Chasa": "PR crisis management became routine"

Maxim Behar

In 2009, I was one of the initiators and founders of the World Communication Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, which we then almost connected with the iconic Economic Forum of Dr. Because actually being a PR expert nowadays is being a leader, in your workplace, on social media, among your clients and your readers. What does it do?

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

Waxing UnLyrical

Here are my thoughts: 1) Ideally, brands/agencies would never pay bloggers and never even give them product or pay for trips, lunches etc. And when I started in summer 2009, we wouldnt have paid cash to a blogger we wanted to work with. Transparency, disclosure and ethics in new media are quickly becoming an area of interest of mine.

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A critical review of Excellence Theory in an era of digital communication

Stephen Waddington

In a paper for the Journal of Public Relations Research[v] Michael Karlberg makes the case that the Excellence Theory is overly concerned with consumers as a primary audience. Other challenges include ethics, power, propaganda and Western bias. People have always talked about organisations and brands.

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Conducting historical interviews in a transparent age

PR Conversations

In particular this addresses ethical and practical challenges that arise when using the internet and social media within a research methodology. Social media means the researcher can be considered to be a “double insider” (Adriansen and Madsen 2009 p.145) Journal of media practice. Issue #1: Being an insider.