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Trust: Business Tops Media and Government in Ethics and Competence, Finds Survey

Sword and the Script

Businesses are increasingly viewed as more ethical and competent than government, media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Business is ethical and competent. According to the survey, business was the only institution that respondents classified as both ethical and competent. Write with journalistic ideals.

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

Sword and the Script

BuzzSumo edges into PR with journalist database for SMBs; Poppulo adds generative AI for internal comms; why don’t PR software vendors follow basic PR standard practices? Poppulo adds generative AI for internal comms Poppulo, which develops an internal comms platform called Harmony, said it embedded generative AI into its platform.

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PR Placing a Premium on Creativity; Findings from 5 Studies in Public Relations

Sword and the Script

Six in 10 comms pros face ethical challenges. A survey of 1,046 communication professionals in North America found 33% day they faced several ethical challenges in the last year and another 29% faced one ethical challenge. Finally, reporters respond to just 3.27% of pitches, however, many will write a story without responding.

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There’s no debate: Not paying an intern as a PR agency is unethical.

The Hoffman Agency

We recently had a call with a potential PR intern, as part of a series of chats we’re having for new agency hires for the year ahead. He was positive, clearly had a flair for writing, had a great balance between ambition and desire to learn his PR chops, and would definitely fit the culture here at The Hoffman Agency.

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Future of PR: 2020 edition

Stephen Waddington

He published a paper called PR 2020 on behalf of the CIPR in 2011 that examined the future of PR. The PR 2020 project was based on interviews with PR practitioners throughout the UK and the outlook for the forthcoming decade. They are all issues that will occupy us all in 2020. Issues in practice 1. Happy New Year.

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The Risks of Brand Stances on Political Issues

PRSay

For companies, demonstrative actions might range from internal processes to hiring practices and how a brand shapes — and is shaped by — the external environment. She writes about nonprofit branding and purpose marketing as a regular contributor to Adweek and Brandingmag.

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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. Prowly was acquired by Semrush in 2020, in a move I think could be interesting. Internal comms metrics.