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An Ethical Test: Why I Blew the Whistle on Corruption at My Organization

PRSay

As PR practitioners, every day presents a new opportunity to reinforce our commitment to ethics. I had been enjoying my time as a public affairs officer at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care System (PVAHCS). But what happens when you discover that your organization doesn’t share your belief in that commitment?

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Page report highlights management communications opportunity

Wadds Inc.

Communications leaders participated proactively in management meetings and daily executive standups and addressed a wide range of issues, from public health emergencies to mental health and public relations challenges. I described this shift in a paper for the Government Communication Service in 2020.

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What should you do when you think you received an unlawful order? Dave Honchul

Ethical Voices

He’s a public affairs specialist at the US Department of the Treasury and a docent at the National Museum of the US Air Force. He discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: What should you do when you think you received an unlawful order? What is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted?

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Accreditation Goes Virtual

PRSay

In preparation for the examination, she took practice tests on various PRSA websites, studied ethics modules and signed up for the online course, participating in as much as she could before her July 8 test date. Air Force Reserve with 25-plus years in military public affairs, national security and international settings.

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An “Interview” with ChatGPT: What is Public Relations? How Has PR Changed? Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Comms Pros?

Sword and the Script

Crisis management: When an organization faces a crisis, PR practitioners may work to minimize the damage to the organization’s reputation by managing the flow of information and communicating with the public. Should companies hire public relations people internally? When should a company hire a public relations agency?

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Maximising resilience of health and well-being assets in crisis situations

PR Conversations

One of the problems for me, though, with this focus is that it is almost entirely on individuals’ ability to adapt and their ‘internal local of control’ Public relations seems to reflect a largely individualistic perspective with little attention on systemic or structural factors and forces.

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Hyundai “Message To Space” TV Spot – Marketing Masterpiece or Brilliant Illusion?

MaccaPR

“Message To Space,” created by agency Innocean Worldwide, depicts how Hyundai worked with a 13-year-old girl who appears to be Stephanie Virts of Houston, daughter of NASA astronaut Terry Virts, to send a message to her father as he circles the Earth in the International Space Station. Ethically ambiguous? asks Preston.

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