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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). That’s measured by asking respondents to rate trust on a nine-point scale from “distrust” to “neutral” to “trust.” Business is ethical and competent. 57% are neutral about trust in NGOs.

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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. PR is a social science. Issues in practice 1.

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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. The Gray Area of Communicating a Point of View. click image for higher resolution).

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The Volume and Variety of Communications Work is Shifting, Finds 5th Annual Survey of Comms Pros

Sword and the Script

” In open-ended comments, respondents cite digital, internal comms and a greater focus on comms by leadership as among the underlying reasons. DE&I was followed by thought leadership (49%), data & analytics (48%), storytelling (48%), comms strategy (46%), measurement (46%), internal comms (44%) and ESG programs (43%).

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To Improve Crisis-Response Plans, Bring in a Red Team

PRSay

Just skim the headlines and you’ll notice everything from fraud and deadly cyberattacks to ethics violations, faulty products and tone-deaf commercials bringing down the mightiest of organizations. The next step is then putting the remedial measures in place, in the event that similar incidents occur in the future.

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The journey from lockdown

Stephen Waddington

Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard Business Review has an international perspective, while A Sustainable Exit Strategy: Managing Uncertainty, Minimising Harm published by the Institute for Global Change looks specifically at the situation in the UK. Adapting This is an interesting area in which some organisations have shown strong leadership.

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Maxim Behar for “24 Chasa": "PR crisis management became routine"

Maxim Behar

A month ago I published my new book The Morning After in Bulgaria and in it I focused not so much on the communication business, but on leadership. The pandemic coincided with my announcement by the influential American publication PR Week as the best PR professional in Europe for 2020. Crisis PR has become commonplace.