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Ethics as a Prediction? No. It’s a Core Value.

Barokas

In early 2019, I wonder if anyone accurately forecasted the chaos that ensued with high profile unicorns such as WeWork. In reading through various 2020 predictions for the PR and communications industry, one idea keeps jumping out at me: “ethics are becoming more important.”. The post Ethics as a Prediction? Wait, what?

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

PRSay

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse , in 2019 alone nearly 50,000 people in the United States died from overdoses of opioid drugs that included prescription pain relievers. the French conglomerate that had $11 billion in revenue last year, is the first marketing agency to face a lawsuit in the opioid crisis.

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10 bonus soundbites from Agency Business Report 2019

Steve Barrett on PR

From ethics to holding companies to culture, the benefits of midsize firms and much more.

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How To Set Expectations In Public Relations

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

In fact, CareerCast listed “PR executive” as one of the top ten most stressful gigs in its 2019 Most Stressful Jobs report. On the agency side, it’s sometimes because the team overpromises in their eagerness to win a new client. With better expectations-setting, PR can be less stressful for those of us on the agency or corporate side.

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Dawn of the Intelligently Automated Agency

PR 20/20

Brands will need to become more human with greater resources dedicated to listening, relationship building, ethics, empathy, creativity, culture and community. As HubSpot’s first agency partner back in 2008 , we’ve built our firm on the back of automation and have witnessed it transform the industry over the last decade. Are you ready?

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Exploring teaching, research, and ethical practices in influencer marketing

Karen Freberg

This will continue to be apparent as we enter 2019. With this being said, what are some of the ways we can identify influencers for their ethical behavior and how do we incorporate this into our own practices and classroom activities for our students? Creating an ethical code of conduct for influencers.

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

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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