PR in High Definition

DECEMBER 17, 2018

A lesson in ethics. The ill-advised campaign that led to a host of troubles in South Africa highlighted the need for proper ethical standards in the comms industry. A big tech crisis. For much of this year, Facebook and its owner Mark Zuckerberg, were in crisis mode. GDPR, the acronym you cannot escape.

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PR Conversations

MAY 1, 2017

The following is the result of our subsequent shared musings concerning the impact of crisis situations on the health and well-being of public relations practitioners. In an ongoing crisis, operating on adrenaline for a prolonged period of time can be – and is often – physically and mentally harmful.

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Stern + Associates

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Addressing the Student Mental Health Crisis. and What We Can Do About It ” (2018) and leading authority on building cultures that achieve competitive advantage through people. they unexpectedly discovered that mental health was the biggest problem on college campuses , and that its significance is on the rise.

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Karen Freberg

JULY 10, 2019

I will be teaching my two traditional classes during the fall semester (Introduction to Strategic Communication and Public Relations and Crisis Communication). So, you can see here – Candice is definitely setting the bar pretty high as far as work experience and ethic. She is just starting her senior year in college.

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 6, 2018

What’s the role of PR in a world in crisis? In the heightened political environment of 2018 we've started to see organisations and their leaders speak out on issues such as immigration, that are contrary to their values. We must take some responsibility for the crisis of trust on behalf of the organisations that we serve.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Tackling fake news and disinformation: an ethical issue that strikes at the heart of practice 6. If you work in issues and crisis it can be especially acute. Larry Fink, CEO, BlackRock, used his annual letters to business leaders in 2018 and 2019 to call companies to account on their societal impact. What we do 5.

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 11, 2018

I was honoured to address the CIPR's 2018 graduation ceremony in London tonight. It’s essential for reputation monitoring and crisis management. There’s a common but misplaced assertion that PR is a special case because of its reliance on human characteristics such as emotional intelligence; ethics; and interpersonal skills.

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 3, 2019

From going to prison after being convicted for violating the FCPA (the US foreign anti-bribery law) to founding Front-Line Anti-Bribery LLC, and educating multinationals on current issues and challenges with respect to compliance, ethics and anti-bribery, Richard Bistrong has come a long way. Richard: It happened slowly and organically.

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Communications Conversations

MARCH 6, 2018

I’m on the front lines helping drive messaging, strategy and crisis management. Any projects coming up in 2018 that you’re particularly excited for at Cargill? It eliminates time zone issues and gives us real bench strength, crisis capabilities, language capabilities and cultural knowledge.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

The housing crisis of 2008 spurred largely by risky loans and securitized mortgages, that both diversified the financial risk and cause us to collectively lose sight of where it was precisely, set off the most severe recession we’ve seen in a long time. In 2018, the most recent edition, there were nearly 7,000.

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Beyond PR

JUNE 14, 2018

I realized that the client’s view of what PR was only related to what you do when you’ve got an announcement — or a crisis.” In its recently released 2018 Global Communications Report , for example, the USC Annenberg Center for Public Relations surveyed PR pros about the kind of talent they are seeking to attract and develop.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Fake AI content spins out of control “2024 is the year a deep fake AI-generated video creates a social or political crisis that spins out of control. However, going into next year, this technology will also change the way crisis communication and reputation management is done. ” ~ Kathy Casciani , Founder, Azul PR + Communications 17.

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Critical Mention

AUGUST 26, 2018

We recently had the opportunity to speak to the 2018 PRSA National Chairman, Anthony W. Q: What are your initiatives for PRSA for 2018-2019? meaning diversity, advocacy, technology and ethics. We have the highest satisfaction scores among members for our support of the Code of Ethics and that’s where we need to stay.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

There are ethical and practical issues around it, but it’s a breakthrough that’s all the more impressive given the expectation of an improved, next-gen model next year. ” ~ Molly McPherson , APR, Public Relations and Crisis Manager, Molly + Co. 2018: 20 Insightful PR and Marketing Predictions for 2018.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Here are some ideas for PR-relevant costumes for Halloween 2018. 2018 said goodbye to “Scandal,” so if you feel you can pull it off, why not salute the recently retired queen of crisis PR, Olivia Pope? Halloween allows us to celebrate, or make a mockery of, our heroes in PR, journalism, and media. Page Society.

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Contently - Strategy

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

In the 2018 film Eighth Grade , Elsie Fisher plays Kayla, a 15-year-old who spends every day after school scrolling through Instagram and YouTube in her dark bedroom. On the other hand, this opens opportunities for ethical, useful content marketing in the next few decades. Gen Z splits identities across platforms.

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PR Matters

JANUARY 12, 2018

Don’t Be: Inconsistent in your ethics, words and actions. Don’t Be: A silo mentality; somebody who is blinkered in their conception and approach to a problem or opportunity, whether devising a campaign or managing a crisis. Do Be: Consistently proactive in taking into account all stakeholders in your communications.

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Newsfile

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Boeing’s 737 Max Crisis (2019-2020) : Boeing faced a major public relations crisis after two crashes involving its 737 Max aircrafts in 2018 and 2019. These recent examples illustrate that even well-established companies can face PR crises when they fail to prioritize transparency, safety, and ethical practices.

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 19, 2022

The collapse of local news is a crisis that has played out in plain sight over the past two decades. The number of journalists has fallen by a quarter from 23,000 in 2007, to 17,000 in 2018. This lacks the ethics, rigour, and standards of an editorial environment. Neither has been replaced by a sustainable model.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Regulators have been unable to keep up with the changes in media, not just from an anti-competitive standpoint, but also in adhering to ethical standards. Earned media in flux, owned media ascending A rise in trust in the media as a source of information during the COVID-19 crisis has been short-lived, according to the Reuters Institute.

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Wadds Inc.

JUNE 19, 2022

The collapse of local news is a crisis that has played out in plain sight over the past two decades. The number of journalists has fallen by a quarter from 23,000 in 2007, to 17,000 in 2018. This lacks the ethics, rigour, and standards of an editorial environment. Neither has been replaced by a sustainable model.

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NewsWhip

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

We arrived in 2018 at a very stunning finding, which is the first time that we then looked at the concerns, and rising concerns, about fake news. People needed help, knew we had a big national crisis, a global crisis, and said, “We really are going to need our institutions to step up.” Just above the line.

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Stephen Waddington

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

This is an article and deck about the outlook for public relations and social media in 2018. I’ve also included a call to action that may be helpful in your planning for 2018. My view is that 2018 will prove to be a breakthrough year for the professionalism of public relations as a result of a concerted effort on a number of fronts.

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Flatiron Communications

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Nick Confessore, one of The New York Times’s better-known investigative reporters, appeared on MSNBC’s “All in with Chris Hayes” within hours of The Times publishing its bombshell exposé on how Facebook dealt with the Russian crisis. The story was aptly titled “Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis.”.

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