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Is Lawsuit Against Marketing Firm’s Role in Opioid Crisis a Precedent for Public Relations?

PRSay

As Courthouse News Service reported , the Massachusetts case continues a trend of targeting not just drugmakers but also the marketing companies that help them promote their products. A commitment to ethics. For communicators, the suit reinforces the need to commit to ethical responsibilities.

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Does Free Speech Mean Unfiltered?

Mindful Marketing

Verbal restraint isn’t always ideal, but even common communication challenges like these can inform a newly trending social imperative—free speech. Arab Spring in 2010) (1) and to bash people who look or think differently. ” Although it’s true that law and ethics often align, the fit is far from perfect.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

Types of Mass Communication History of Mass Communication Mass Communication Theories Ethical Issues for Mass Communications What Does the Future of Mass Communications Look Like? This issue sometimes creates further ethical issues listed in this section. However, online abuse comes with a specific set of problems and ethical concerns.

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New Year’s Honours 2015

Stuart Bruce

Professor Anne Gregory @gregsanne – I’ve known Anne for more than 20 years and she’s one of the most impressive advocates I know for increasing professionalism in public relations and emphasising how ethics should be at the heart of what we do. Unfortunately boundary changes meant the seat was unwinnable in 2010.

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The Value of Strategic Communications in the PRSA MBA/Business School Program

PRSay

Nearly a decade ago, the PRSA Foundation sponsored research that found only 23 percent of graduate business schools consistently provide instruction in reputation management, corporate communications and related ethical dimensions. Faculty talk trends and current events. That’s a huge shift in the way we think about communications.”.

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Behind the Headlines With Deborah Radman

Cision

In this interview, Deborah discusses the challenges of communicating with different generations, the growth of social media and the trends that will impact marketing and communication moving forward. Receiving the President’s Award (2014) and the Phillip Dorf Leadership Award (2010) – both from the New York PRSA.

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The evolution of mainstream media and the need for every company to become a media company

Presspage

What are some trends you’re seeing evolve over time? By 2010, three decades later, there were four PR professionals for every journalist in the U.S. How has the media landscape changed? Bart : “Here’s what hasn’t changed: The first press release was written by Ivy Lee in 1906. It’s just a fact of life.

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