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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. The transaction follows a private equity-backed three-way merger between Kantar Reputation Intelligence, PRgloo and Onclusive which closed in the beginning of the year. million over five venture rounds since 2004. Onclusive acquires Critical Mention.

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The four Ps of public relations leadership

PR Conversations

Distance from an event lends a certain perspective, as we all know from our various war stories on crisis communication. Our professional codes of ethics say that ultimately our role is to serve society and sometimes that is seen as being in conflict with the interests of the organisations that we work for day to day.

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Exposing PR’s weaknesses

PR Conversations

Criticism by Gawker (among others) led to a ‘pseudo’ apology (as defined by Lazare 2004 ). I’m also concerned that the consequences for PR practitioners of taking a position that is publicly vilified are personal and often immediate e.g. being fired or losing any good reputation they may have had.