Stephen Waddington

OCTOBER 30, 2017

An upcoming discussion between two senior public relations practitioners, spotlights the issue of ethics in public relations. Lord Bell worked for Margaret Thatcher during the 80s and 90s before founding the eponymous public relations agency Bell Pottinger that he ran for 30 years. Lord Bell left the agency in August 2016.

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PR Conversations

JANUARY 20, 2015

Both his equity stake and regular participation in the agency, not to mention profile and participation of clients, were apparently concealed from both his employer and the viewing public. For public relations practitioners committed to ethics and professionalism, the natural first instinct was self-righteous shock.

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PR Conversations

JANUARY 20, 2015

Both his equity stake and regular participation in the agency, not to mention profile and participation of clients, were apparently concealed from both his employer and the viewing public. For public relations practitioners committed to ethics and professionalism, the natural first instinct was self-righteous shock.

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Communications Conversations

MARCH 29, 2019

In the span of five years, Tess has excelled in marketing, communications, production, and business development roles in agencies, on the client side, and with non-profits. Over the last two years, Amelia has played an integral role in shaping how our agency approaches influencer engagement in the healthcare industry.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

He published a paper called PR 2020 on behalf of the CIPR in 2011 that examined the future of PR. Tackling fake news and disinformation: an ethical issue that strikes at the heart of practice 6. The managers of agencies and in-house teams have recognised mental health and wellbeing as critical to retention, utilisation and good work.

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Maxim Behar

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Many of the people running the world’s biggest agencies are almost invisible on the global stage. This is what I can see every time when I visit your great agency in Sofia. Equally, I also want to congratulate everyone at M3 brilliant team of hardworking staff, that every agency around the word is so jealous of. See you soon!

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Can you imagine being the guy running a public relations agency that “perished in a public relations fiasco”? When it was called out for crossing ethical lines by using false propaganda and fake grassroots in 2011, Bell Pottinger blasted critics but apparently never saw fit to police its methods.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

If you cannot get coverage any other way, you might need a new PR department/agency/consultant; and 2. Here are my thoughts: 1) Ideally, brands/agencies would never pay bloggers and never even give them product or pay for trips, lunches etc. A few important qualifiers here: 1. It is on this latter point that I will reflect.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Take for example the first sentence from this PRWeek article by David Blecken, February 9, 2015 (ya, going on two years old now), where he quotes Lou Hoffman of The Hoffman Agency. Even within this blog for Waxing UnLyrical, the “Rebirth of Storytelling” was promoted as a returning concept back in May of 2011.

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Stephen Waddington

AUGUST 27, 2018

The first phase of study that led to the Excellence Theory consisted of quantitative, survey-based research of more than 300 organisations in Canada, UK and US, including a cross section of corporations, non-profit organisations and government agencies. Other challenges include ethics, power, propaganda and Western bias.

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Cision

AUGUST 26, 2015

How to Balance Ethics and Reality in #Influencer #Marketing [link] pic.twitter.com/BWn4QG8m0s. — Digital Marketing Agency. Founded The Social Media Monthly, in 2011 as the first and only print magazine devoted exclusively to unlocking the power of social media for its readers. Jay Baer (@jaybaer) August 19, 2015. CEO of Evolve!

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Flack's Revenge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

It made me think of broader questions about PR ethics, which I’ve explored before here, and the state of communications today. Indeed, my post Above the FUD , covered this very topic back in 2011 (ironically, it mentioned another PR agency that spread negative stories for Facebook back then).

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 17, 2015

As of 2011, the BLS reported that only 8.7 A strong example of this can be seen on PRWeek ’s 2014 Agency Business Report. PR agencies aren’t above reproach, either. This begs the question: are PR agencies contributing to #PRDiversity challenges? percent of African-American/Blacks, 7.3 ” ~ Global Alliance.

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Masters in Communications

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

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? of households in the US-owned at least one television set in 2011. This issue sometimes creates further ethical issues listed in this section.

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Stephen Waddington

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

12 months is an arbitrary period to measure change in a sector that is rapidly innovating in some areas such as artificial intelligence and digital media; but woefully slow in others such as diversity and ethics. The conversation around ethics will inevitably get louder in 2018. There’s also a serious ethical challenge.

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Flatiron Communications

JANUARY 7, 2020

The Internet Research Agency, Russia’s Troll Farm. ” To its credit, the Buzzfeed investigative team learned that “…since 2011, at least 27 online information operations have been partially or wholly attributed to PR or marketing firms. Of those, 19 occurred in 2019 alone.

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