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Blowing smoke

Stephen Waddington

British American Tobacco’s use of influencers and emerging forms of media raises ethical issues for the marketing and public relations professions. These campaigns breach the platforms’ own terms and conditions and ethical standards for marketing and public relations. Its turnover in 2019 was £26 billion. billion pouches.

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#Leaders Listen Up: #Millennials Share what Gets their Attention on Social Media

Deirdre Breakenridge

Social media continues to capture time and attention. Here are some of the stats revealing how much people participate in social media; where they spend their time; what they like to do and how often. According to MerchDope , in June of 2019, there were approximately 300 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.

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Future of PR: 2020 edition

Stephen Waddington

The greatest of these is the shift away from media relations as the dominant means of public engagement to working across all forms of media. PR leads with earned and owned media but also uses paid and shared media for amplification and targeting. News media in pain but new formats emerge 13. That’s thanks to you.

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Maxim Behar on Bulgaria ONAIR - The Border Between Ethics, Morality and Scandal

Maxim Behar

Maxim: On that day, a very important day, anything Mr. Petkov and Lena Borislavova do, would electrify the social media and society. You mentioned quality journalism and media here, but we often forget that there are more than 4 billion journalists in the world right now, and we all own media. Maxim: I don’t think so.

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An Interview with Richard Bistrong, CEO, Front-Line Anti-Bribery LLC

Critical Mention

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. If so, how?

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After a Recent Three-Way Tie Up, Onclusive Acquires Critical Mention

Sword and the Script

Scale to compete with incumbents; Prowly adds media monitoring; Cision releases internal DE&I report; World’s First-Ever NFT Press Release. I took a business ethics course when I was studying for my MBA. Of course, b-school being b-school we debated the merits of that journal article in class.

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Disinformation in Business and Facts, Diplomacy, and Trust as Countermeasures [UML]

Sword and the Script

While I don’t agree entirely with the fatalist premise in the narrative, it will give anyone working in PR, marketing or media a lot to think about. The concern here isn’t just for the ethics of data and psychology in business persuasion – but also the ability to recognize when it’s being used against you.

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