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6 Ways to Improve Your Business Expertise and Strengthen Your Ethical Core

PRSay

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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The Halo Effect: Why Attractiveness Matters in PR

Doctor Spin

The Halo Effect is intriguing—and ethically challenging in PR. Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1 Nisbett, R., & Wilson, T. Over-Reliance on Positive Associations While the Halo Effect can be a powerful tool, it also presents challenges and ethical considerations. Source: Nursing Times 3 Smith, R.

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial? A few weeks ago, they asked a question about paying for blog posts. In 2010, blogs and bloggers are truly influencers. Let me unpack this a bit.

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PR and Content Marketing Insights from the Edelman Trust Barometer

Sword and the Script

I study organizational persuasion for a living and I knew this was not bona fide journalism. Some clever guy with a political bent bought a domain and polished up a site to look like journalism. There is something wrong with perpetuating erroneous information and dressing it up to look like journalism.

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A critical review of Excellence Theory in an era of digital communication

Stephen Waddington

In a paper for the Journal of Public Relations Research[v] Michael Karlberg makes the case that the Excellence Theory is overly concerned with consumers as a primary audience. Other challenges include ethics, power, propaganda and Western bias. Table 3: Academic criticism of the Excellence Theory.

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Conducting historical interviews in a transparent age

PR Conversations

As my paper will be included in the IHPRC proceedings in due course, I am not going to explain my research philosophy or go into further detail of the methodology and resulting arguments in this blog post. Social media means the researcher can be considered to be a “double insider” (Adriansen and Madsen 2009 p.145)

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Conducting historical interviews in a transparent age

PR Conversations

As my paper will be included in the IHPRC proceedings in due course, I am not going to explain my research philosophy or go into further detail of the methodology and resulting arguments in this blog post. Social media means the researcher can be considered to be a “double insider” (Adriansen and Madsen 2009 p.145)