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Double-dipping exposes reputation risk in blurred boundaries of PR and journalism

PR Conversations

For public relations practitioners committed to ethics and professionalism, the natural first instinct was self-righteous shock. Most codes of ethics are clear about why this is wrong. When trust in journalism is broken, everyone loses. The boundaries between journalism and public relations are increasingly porous.

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Double-dipping exposes reputation risk in blurred boundaries of PR and journalism

PR Conversations

For public relations practitioners committed to ethics and professionalism, the natural first instinct was self-righteous shock. Most codes of ethics are clear about why this is wrong. When trust in journalism is broken, everyone loses. The boundaries between journalism and public relations are increasingly porous.

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An Interview with Richard Bistrong, CEO, Front-Line Anti-Bribery LLC

Critical Mention

From going to prison after being convicted for violating the FCPA (the US foreign anti-bribery law) to founding Front-Line Anti-Bribery LLC, and educating multinationals on current issues and challenges with respect to compliance, ethics and anti-bribery, Richard Bistrong has come a long way. If so, how?

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The Top PR Threats To Your Company’s Reputation

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The notorious 2013 hack of Target cardholders ultimately cost the company $242 million. Look at the case of secretive biotech startup Theranos, which was a high-flyer until doctored research and bad quality-control checks were exposed in a series of investigative articles by The Wall Street Journal. The Security Breach.

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Maxim Behar in the business podcast "What Money Can Do"

Maxim Behar

Even though this year, I'm now 28 years in business and 15-16 years in journalism before that, this year has been the hardest year to do business at all. These are my colleagues, we make a huge effort to train them on corporate standards, on attitude to work, on attitude to customers. All this came true in a bunch.

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2016: When PR Turned to the Dark Side

Flatiron Communications

How organizations, corporations, and individuals can now bypass the journalistic filter to take their “owned” messages directly to the public, which, in turn, amplifies them in social media without regard for factual veracity, or worse, with the knowledge that what they’re sharing is purposely misleading. Russia’s Media Trolls (May 2014).