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Hate Speech and Ethics: A 3-Dimensional Issue

PRSay

Each September, PRSA celebrates Ethics Month, featuring programs presented by the PRSA Board of Ethics and Professional Standards (BEPS). This year’s theme is “Ethics Every Day.” Please join the discussion via #PRethics, and follow along with our ethics-related blog posts, webinars and Twitter Chats throughout the month.

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Content analysis tool BuzzSumo adds journalist database for SMBs [PR tech sum no. 48]

Sword and the Script

I’ve been writing this monthly column about PR technology companies for nearly five years – and I’m still continuously reminded that while these companies make software for communicators, they are not typically communication experts. Meltwater announced six principles to govern the ethical development of AI. Content picks PR ethics.

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Creative Headlines Will Drive PR SEO & Success in 2017

Cision

It continues a thought leading series based on Agency and Client-side workplace issues, and is the basis of a forthcoming coaching and mentoring book to be published in 2017 alongside the 15th anniversary of the agency. Creating such community in 2017 is now of the highest significance as journalism returns to its roots.

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Public relations and professionalism: work to do to realise full potential

Stephen Waddington

The European Communication Monitor reported in 2017 that four out of five public relations departments are failing to operate at their potential. A body of knowledge, ethics and certification are the three foundations of a profession. It subsequently led to the collapse of the agency (Kwan Yuk, 2017). Professional Capabilities.

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Preserving Authenticity: The Nuances of Ethical Storytelling in Advocacy Communications – Zainab Chaudary

Ethical Voices

What is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted? If you remember in 2017 when the Muslim ban was first announced, people flocked in droves to airports, to support the community, to provide legal support. I’m in the middle of working with a client where there are six messaging guides I have to write.

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United we Brand? Top Reads on Corporate Activism

Flack's Revenge

Sword & Script blogger Frank Strong wrote about the nuances of taking a stand , covering another Edelman study, and his own survey: A study by Edelman found… “64 percent of consumers around the world now buy on belief, a remarkable increase of 13 points since 2017.” And if they didn’t, shouldn’t they have? A Few Final Thoughts.

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Cultures of Corruption

Mindful Marketing

by David Hagenbuch - professor of Marketing at Messiah University - ​author of Honorable Influence - founder of Mindful Marketing “ Auditors Cheated on Ethics Exams ”—a recent New York Times headline revealed. Who would cheat on ethics?— The Security and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.)

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