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Too many beers: ethics and client conflicts – Ken Kerrigan

Ethical Voices

Ken discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: Too many beers – Ethics and client conflicts. Can corporations really be ethical media enterprises? We get into a little bit about ethical dilemmas that we might face in the profession, including in today’s stakeholder driven world.

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Blowing smoke

Stephen Waddington

British American Tobacco’s use of influencers and emerging forms of media raises ethical issues for the marketing and public relations professions. A Bureau of Investigative Journalism report has criticised British American Tobacco (BAT) for targeting its products at young people, often in developing markets using emerging forms of media.

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We Must Confront the Uncomfortable Truths – Roger Bolton

Ethical Voices

He discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: It’s great to be with you, Mark. It was the end of my journalism career, but within two weeks I knew that I’d made the right decision, because not only was I writing stuff for him, but I was influencing the way he thought about things. Page was a real person.

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How to Effectively Counsel Those That Want to Make Unethical Decisions – Cathy Morley Foster

Ethical Voices

She discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: How to effectively counsel those that want to make unethical decisions. And I still adhere to the principles that he espoused, which were principles of PRSA, but they were also his personal values and how he viewed ethics. The importance of expertise and common sense.

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After a Recent Three-Way Tie Up, Onclusive Acquires Critical Mention

Sword and the Script

I took a business ethics course when I was studying for my MBA. One of the assignments was a peer-reviewed journal article that made the case against merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions. Of course, b-school being b-school we debated the merits of that journal article in class. click image for higher resolution).

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Social Media Rock Stars: Cargill’s Sue Serna

Communications Conversations

That includes our global corporate-level strategy, channel management and oversight of our enterprise social media tools as well as company-wide standards, protocols and procedures for both organic and paid on all channels and all platforms globally. They understand how to find information and have very high standards for accuracy and ethics.

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Al Jazeera: America’s Not-So-Warm Embrace

Flatiron Communications

Minimally, those charged with re-positioning Al Jazeera America into a reputable journalistic enterprise, by U.S. And then there were the internal scandals and defections that bubbled into the public domain raising the spectre that the network may not be as committed to journalistic ethics as it purported to be.