Stephen Waddington

MARCH 24, 2021

The PRCA Ethics Council has published its annual perspective of ethical challenging facing PR practice in 2021. The Council was launched in May 2020 to raise ethical standards in PR around the world. Here are ten of the ethical issues facing practitioners highlighted in PRCA Ethics Council Annual Perspective 2021.

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Ethical Voices

APRIL 22, 2024

What is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted? I was pitching four reporters, three of which I knew pretty well. The fourth reporter I didn’t know as well, but I had worked with off and on. The next day I got a phone call from a reporter I’m used to working with.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Each September, PRSA celebrates Ethics Month, featuring programs presented by the PRSA Board of Ethics and Professional Standards (BEPS). Please join the discussion via #PRSAChat and #EthicsMonth, and follow along with our ethics-related blog posts, webinars and Twitter Chats throughout the month.

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Wadds Inc.

MAY 19, 2024

A new report makes the case for the elevated role of corporate communications in management. A new report - Beyond communication: CCO leadership in navigating new complexity - published by the Page Society supports my argument for the elevated status of the corporate communications function. Dr Shannon A.

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Ethical Voices

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This week the communications ethics issues spanned a wide variety of topics from non-competes, to stupid PR people, to ethics developments with AI and the 16 th Anniversary of one of the dumbest guerilla marketing stunts of all time. Are non-competes ethical? This was the big news last week, but I am just getting to it now.

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HMA Public Relations

MARCH 15, 2023

One of the pillars of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics is that journalists should seek truth and report it. Scott Hanson shares more on the importance of this pillar and how it relates to FOX News and a recent defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems.

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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. Additionally, new practitioners reported experiencing hostile workplace environments and harassment more than anticipated.

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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. Additionally, new practitioners reported experiencing hostile workplace environments and harassment more than anticipated.

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Ethical Voices

MARCH 9, 2023

This week there are more than a few public relations ethics issues and some of them are real doozies. Amiga: Ethics of AI Pitching – Thinking about the ethical use of generative AI in public relations and marketing has been consuming every spare minute of my day. Check them out below!

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Ethical Voices

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Thinking about your career from circus to healthcare to agency, what is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted? The most difficult ethical challenge for me occurred following the Pulse nightclub tragedy in 2016. What are you seeing as some of the key ethics challenges for today and tomorrow?

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 1, 2021

A report by Allegory sets out the urgent need for organisations to act on issues related to Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) and proposes a framework to support planning. Today we’ve published a report Corporate Digital Responsibility: What You Need To Know Right Now.

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Ethical Voices

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Once again, I didn’t have to look far for ethics stories this week. I strongly encourage everyone to read the HBR study on what ethical failures customers are least likely to accept. There are also videos and Webinars from PRSA and PRCA and a link to some great ethics swag. . Do you want to start an ethics discussion?

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Agility PR Solutions

JANUARY 16, 2023

“In Business We Trust:” this is the key finding of the newly released 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer, the 23rd annual trust and credibility survey report from comms giant Edelman. The post 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer: Business is the only institution viewed as ethical and competent appeared first on Agility PR Solutions.

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Ethical Voices

OCTOBER 27, 2022

When I started gathering ethics stories for the week, I was sad because I thought it would be a quiet week. While it skirts legal boundaries based on historical contracts, it opens a host of ethics issues – what is fair use and when do we say no? . The new ethics question this week, is what took brands so long to take action? .

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Ethical Voices

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Marlene Neill had a great assignment for her students this week where they had to analyze a political ad of their choice to see if it was ethical. Beyond the elections, the common theme in PR ethics issues this week was (the lack of) virtue. . Twitter layoffs – Elon Musk gave a masterclass in how not to handle layoffs ethically.

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Ethical Voices

MAY 8, 2023

She was one of the first people I interviewed when Ethical Voices launched in 2019, and I figured it was time to have her back, particularly because Ethisphere recently released an updated list of the World’s Most Ethical companies. What are the top ethics issues facing companies? It has a couple of component pieces.

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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. Media distrust grows.

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Ethical Voices

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This week the ethical issues in public relations rain the gamut, but the core theme was fairness. Pay Transparency – This week PR Week reported on the New York law taking effect on Tuesday which requires companies to post salary ranges in job openings. Last month Kim Kardashian was fined for lack of disclosure.

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Ethical Voices

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This week in PR Ethics the issues ran the gamut from AI and government overreach, to how much should brands cooperate with the government and should we believe what we read: Conflict of Interest – One of the most common ethical dilemmas PR pros face deals with conflict of interest. Is there something rotten about film reviews?

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Ethical Voices

JANUARY 23, 2023

She discusses a number of important ethics topics, including: Where do you draw the competitive line? What is our first responsibility in ethical situations? Ethics issues with influencers Why don’t you tell us more about yourself and your career? I am currently the CEO and Co-owner of the Caliber Group.

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Ethical Voices

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This week there were some ironic ethics issues – but the most intriguing articles are both depressing and important. What are the ethics of psychological targeting? In my ethics class, we use layoffs as an example of ethical dilemmas more than anything else. Where do you draw the ethical line? Is it effective?

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Ethical Voices

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This week there were a wide range of ethical issues from slum tourism to sensationalistic news to the importance of stakeholders. The ethics of Favela tours – Fodor’s looks at the return of Favela Tours in Rio and asks – are they ethical? BU pushed back hard and claimed the reporting took one line out of context.

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Ethical Voices

AUGUST 4, 2022

The summer is heating up and so are ethics issues. It is probably easier to ask what violation of PRSA’s code of ethics didn’t happen this week – fraud; lack of transparency and disclosure; and attacks on purpose are just a few. Don’t steal – It is an ethical lesson most people learn early.

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Wadds Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Here, large language models are trained on spreadsheets, reports or research papers and instructed to create summaries and review data from different perspectives. This is powerful in planning, measurement and decision-making. The ability to spot patterns in data offers the potential to create new knowledge.

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Ethical Voices

MARCH 2, 2023

Some weighty, fascinating, and depressing ethics stories this week. From continued corporate failure when it comes to diversity, to further erosions of privacy, there are a number of deep and interesting ethics articles. It also reported that only 3.8% What are the ethical issues around that? who are white.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Each September, PRSA celebrates Ethics Month, featuring programs presented by the PRSA Board of Ethics and Professional Standards (BEPS). This year’s theme is “Ethics Every Day.” Please join the discussion via #PRethics, and follow along with our ethics-related blog posts, webinars and Twitter Chats throughout the month.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

As PR practitioners, every day presents a new opportunity to reinforce our commitment to ethics. In collaboration with Sam Foote, a PVAHCS doctor, I helped disclose mismanagement of fee basis funds and reported a hostile work environment to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). I knew I had to blow the whistle.

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Ethical Voices

JULY 28, 2022

Aside from everything discussed at hearings in Washington, there were a number of interesting ethics articles over the past few weeks. It highlights reports of a UK PR agency offering secret payment to journalists for including clients in editorial coverage. When is talking about ethics advertising? –

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PRSay

JANUARY 19, 2021

As the Associated Press reports , public mistrust of governments and media threatens to limit the rollout of coronavirus vaccines, particularly in the United States. People now expect corporations to address today’s challenges as rigorously as they pursue profits, the report says.

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Agility PR Solutions

JULY 16, 2023

Although AI is just waiting to be implemented more deeply in enterprise operations, enterprise business leaders don’t appear as eager to embrace the tech fully as other CEOs have been reported to say they are.

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Ethical Voices

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

She discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: The ethical implications of blurred lines Influencer ethics and disclosure Ethics and AI Why don’t you tell us more about yourself and your career? What is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted? They’re a real fan.

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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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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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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This year’s theme for PRSA’s Ethics Month is “ PR Ethics Counsel: Be Prepared ” and one of the ways to be prepared is to build relationships inside your company or organization so colleagues are willing to listen to your counsel when an issue arises. Except that you can sleep at night.” Neill, Ph.D,

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Ethical Voices

AUGUST 18, 2022

There were a number of interesting communication ethics issues this week ranging from business operations and liability to sources of disinformation. The most common response when I ask my guests for the best ethics advice they ever received is “Tell the truth.” What is our ethical duty in this area? Where do you draw the line?

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A 2018 report by Jeff Allen, Facebook’s senior data scientist, noted that: “About 40 percent of the traffic to Facebook pages…went to pages that stole or repurposed most of their content.” Report it to the platform. However, reporting it doesn’t mean it will be dealt with. Be inspired.

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Ethical Voices

AUGUST 1, 2022

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. That situation arose.

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