Ethical Voices

JANUARY 23, 2023

Joining me on this week’s episode is Linda Welter , the CEO of Caliber Group , a brand marketing, public relations, and digital firm. She discusses a number of important ethics topics, including: Where do you draw the competitive line? What is our first responsibility in ethical situations?

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PRSay

DECEMBER 27, 2023

CPRE 2023 Signature Report Co-Chairs Elizabeth L. No one really expects PR practice to return to its pre-COVID-19 norms, according to the 2023 Commission on Public Relations Education’s 2023 Signature Report. Toth, Ph.D., APR, Fellow PRSA, the University of Maryland, and Pamela Bourland-Davis, Ph.D.,

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PRSay

DECEMBER 21, 2023

CPRE 2023 Signature Report Co-Chairs Elizabeth L. No one really expects PR practice to return to its pre-COVID-19 norms, according to the 2023 Commission on Public Relations Education’s 2023 Signature Report. Toth, Ph.D., APR, Fellow PRSA, the University of Maryland, and Pamela Bourland-Davis, Ph.D.,

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Report Ethics Education Survey 78

PRSay

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

In its recently released report , the Commission on Public Relations Education recommended adding a course in ethics to the core PR curriculum. According to the Commission, ethics is “more essential than ever in our current age of disinformation, alternative facts and ‘fake news.’”. Developing ethical competencies.

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 6, 2022

Public relations practitioners fall short of the expectations of a profession. It’s a limiting factor for public relations to realise its potential as a management discipline. There is no barrier to entry to working in public relations. In the UK the public relations market employs 99,900 people and contributes £16.7

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Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

Email is the best way to contact reporters, though social media is a close second. In the digital PR world , journalists and reporters promote our content. This post isn’t about writing a media pitch because we’ve already done that. Let’s try to focus on reporters. Finding them can be a challenge. We’ll show you how.

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Ethical Voices

JANUARY 8, 2024

In November 2023, PRSA issued new ethics guidelines titled “Promise and Pitfalls, the Ethical Use of AI for Public Relations Practitioners ”. Please welcome Michelle Egan , the 2023 National Chair of PRSA and Mark Dvorak , the 2023 Chair of PRSA’s Board of Ethics and Professional Standards.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Businesses are increasingly viewed as more ethical and competent than government, media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). after the last election season to supplement the report. Business is ethical and competent. To that end, NGOs were categorized as ethical but less competent. Write with journalistic ideals.

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Government Survey Ethics Media 139

Flack's Revenge

MAY 17, 2018

It can bring the cloaks, daggers and pose ethical challenges for PR teams, vendors and journalists alike. What are the journalistic and ethical considerations? Scott Shane writes: “The old rules say that if news organizations obtain material they deem both authentic and newsworthy, they should run it.

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Flack's Revenge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Instead I found a solid piece of reporting (apart from a few minor quibbles). It made me think of broader questions about PR ethics, which I’ve explored before here, and the state of communications today. Employees distributed anti-Apple research to reporters and would not say who was paying for it.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 17, 2021

Six in 10 comms pros face ethical challenges. A survey of 1,046 communication professionals in North America found 33% day they faced several ethical challenges in the last year and another 29% faced one ethical challenge. The top qualities reporters appreciate in PR. The Gray Area of Communicating a Point of View.

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Wadds Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2023

AI tools can help public relations practitioners work more efficiently and effectively, but the focus on generative AI content overlooks more strategic and disruptive applications. View AI in public relations and management on Beautiful.ai The focus on generative AI and content in public relations overlooks a much bigger opportunity.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Each September, PRSA recognizes Public Relations Ethics Month, supported by programs presented by the PRSA Board of Ethics and Professional Standards (BEPS). This year’s theme, Public Relations Ethics: Strengthening Our Core, guides a special focus on the six core values highlighted in the PRSA Code of Ethics.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

College courses in PR and communications can be very valuable; as PR students, we learn about topics as varied and vital as crisis communication, industry ethics, and social media management. How to write an intriguing pitch Whether you’re an Account Coordinator or a PR veteran, you will be pitching stories… a lot of stories.

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Ethical Voices

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Joining me on this week’s episode of EthicalVoices is Cheryll Forsatz , the Vice President of Corporate Communications and Public Relations for Ferrero USA. What is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted? They’d either write a review, they would share with their friends, and they talk about it.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 29, 2020

Studies find media relations isn’t the top PR service anymore; PR weakness on technical skills; execs are key to shaping corporate social positions Several interesting reports on the PR industry were published earlier in 2020 but got lost in the blur that unfolded since. The report was published in February 2020 – pre-pandemic.

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Wadds Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As the CIPR celebrates its 75th anniversary, practitioners need to own public relations as a management discipline and move beyond communication tasks. A recent Deloitte report shows the opportunity. My use of the term public relations in practice and within management has become a personal form of idolatry.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

So far in 2024, the Los Angeles Times , The Wall Street Journal , Time magazine, Sports Illustrated and National Geographi c, among other outlets, have all conducted layoffs, while journalists at several Condé Nast publications staged walkouts over proposed job cuts. During the five-week course, several co-presenters will join them.

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Ethical Voices

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

I first met him when I pitched him for a client, and we soon discovered we both went to Syracuse around the same time and had friends in common and wanted to talk about ethics. Scott discusses a number of important ethics topics including. The ethics of press trips. The ethics of reviews and selling products you review.

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Wadds Inc.

MARCH 8, 2023

The threat are copyright and ethical issues that arise from the use of AI tools. A quarter of public relations leaders say they will never use AI tools according to a Confidence Tracker published by ICCO and the PRCA. Task 1 – Extracting the key points from the report WordTune creates summaries of text based on a PDF, URL, or text.

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PRSay

JUNE 7, 2023

With every new technology, there’s concern that reporters will become obsolete. Reporters are experimenting with AI, whether as a “curiosity,” or to learn about misinformation and fake AI content. Digital media brands pioneered the “continuous news” model, and AI will surely support round-the clock reporting efforts.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 3, 2023

I’ve been writing this monthly column about PR technology companies for nearly five years – and I’m still continuously reminded that while these companies make software for communicators, they are not typically communication experts. Each reporter profile includes links to content, topics, social profiles among others.

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Ethical Voices

AUGUST 1, 2022

Joining me in this week’s episode is Ken Kerrigan , a Vice President at Infinite Global , an international communications firm specializing in public relations, branding, and content. Ken discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: Too many beers – Ethics and client conflicts. That situation arose.

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Wadds Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

I’ve launched a new book today about artificial intelligence (AI) tools for public relations. The community published two guides to tools in public relations and has been inactive since 2015. The community published two guides to tools in public relations and has been inactive since 2015.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We look forward to eight of the biggest issues for public relations in 2022. Almanac: Challenges and opportunities for public relations 2022 from Stephen Waddington This isn’t a review of 2021, or even a series of predictions for 2022. You’ll find eight short essays with links to further reading, so that you can check our work.

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Ethical Voices

MARCH 14, 2022

Ethical issues in merging the science and art of public relations. I started in Washington DC in Public Affairs and Crisis Management. Thinking about all the crisis work and all the different hats you’ve worn, what is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted? I worked for some great people there.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 12, 2023

While “Generative AI gets much attention” in PR circles, “reductive AI is more interesting and powerful” Stephen Waddington recently published a new book – #PRstack: AI tools for marketing, media and public relations – on the use of generative AI in public relations. The book seeks to readdress the balance.

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Software Tools Ethics Privacy 145

Wadds Inc.

JULY 6, 2022

Public relations practitioners fall short of the expectations of a profession. It’s a limiting factor for public relations to realise its potential as a management discipline. There is no barrier to entry to working in public relations. In the UK the public relations market employs 99,900 people and contributes £16.7

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Publicity Ethics Training Education 72

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 1, 2023

Through our private cloud tenant, we ensure that all non-public information used during the drafting process is kept secure.” ( Source ) Muck Rack. A code of ethics isn’t a bad idea. The second is an enhancement to its AI Writing Assistant, first unveiled a couple of months ago. And now onward with this month’s PR tech sum.

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Ethical Voices

JUNE 12, 2023

What is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted? Reporters can also tell the difference between very rote talking points and something that is deeper. I’m in the middle of working with a client where there are six messaging guides I have to write. But that approach achieves quantity and not quality.

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Stephen Waddington

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Here's my analysis of the opportunities and challenges that public relations faces in the next 12 months. Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose. It’s an issue identified in the United Nation’s report on poverty in the UK. It’s where I’m placing bets over the next 12 months.

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PRSay

JANUARY 3, 2018

Writing and presentation development will still be strongly emphasized, but successful PR practitioners of the future must also be adept at business, content creation, environmental scanning, managing people, ethics, purpose-driven corporate social responsibility, stakeholder engagement and interpreting data and analytics.

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Stephen Waddington

AUGUST 2, 2019

Propaganda has no place in modern public affairs or public relations. Jim Waterson writing in The Guardian highlights dark Facebook Pages that CTF has run on behalf of the Airbus, Canary Wharf Group and the Saudi government. It corrodes trust and pollutes public discourse.

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 29, 2018

This is among the recommendations from the UK Government’s interim report on fake news. A new Government Select Committee report tackles fake news, foreign interference in elections, and the EU Referendum. It’s a must read for anyone that has an interest in the impact of social media on public discourse and democracy itself. “We

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 2, 2024

It’s also a clear way to demonstrate my work ethic and affinity for continuous learning. An “Interview” with ChatGPT: What is Public Relations? If you enjoyed this post, you might also like: Will humans have to re-write AI’s draft of history? That’s of course what I did. How has PR Changed?

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Ethical Voices

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

She discusses a number of important issues, including: How to avoid using people as props and authentically engage Ethics challenges with assumptions How to effectively engage and learn from diverse audiences How to effectively advance social justice issues Tell us a little bit more about yourself and your career? ” Was the thinking.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Its implosion was in large part due to first-rate reporting by The Wall Street Journal’s John Carreyrou, yet Carreyrou was originally tipped off a company insider. For an even uglier example, just look at the rancor toward the (officially) unnamed individual whose report ultimately triggered the impeachment of the president.

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