PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I started PR 20/20 in November 2005 out of a spare bedroom in my Cleveland home with a $25,000 loan and a belief that there was a better way to build an agency. I was 27, and my wife and I didn’t have any personal savings to fall back on, so the loan gave me a six-month financial runway to make it work.

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Financial Conference Agency Resources 98

Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

It found as the Wall Street Journal reported , “Advertisers with in-house agencies increased to 64% of the survey’s respondents from 42% a decade ago, according to the study.” (By So, what does this in-housing trend mean for PR agencies? I’d like to believe, PR agencies that specialized in crisis communications can identify here.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I started PR 20/20 in November 2005 out of a spare bedroom in my Cleveland home with a $25,000 loan and a belief that there was a better way to build an agency. I was 27, and my wife and I didn’t have any personal savings to fall back on, so the loan gave me a six-month financial runway to make it work.

Financial 52

Financial Conference Agency Resources 52

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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Wikipedia Government Interviews Ethics 60

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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Government Education Print Ethics 103

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.

Communications 60

Communications Analysis Web Handbook 60

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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