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10 ethical issues facing public relations - PRCA Ethics Council Annual

Stephen Waddington

The PRCA Ethics Council has published its annual perspective of ethical challenging facing PR practice in 2021. The Council was launched in May 2020 to raise ethical standards in PR around the world. Here are ten of the ethical issues facing practitioners highlighted in PRCA Ethics Council Annual Perspective 2021.

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

PRSay

In early May, the state of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against Publicis Health for its work with Purdue Pharma, claiming its “unfair and deceptive” marketing practices helped fuel the national opioid crisis. Publicis Health acted solely as an advertising agency. A commitment to ethics. All of our work was completely lawful.

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This Week in PR Ethics (5/18/23): Taking on Climate Lies

Ethical Voices

The most popular media outlets for this type of native advertising were Forbes, BBC, and CNN. The study found this native advertising has an impact on editorial coverage in those prominent outlets. The researchers found a decrease in negative coverage of key companies after they purchased native advertising.

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Essential Rules for Preventing a PR Crisis

5W PR

The modern-day news cycle means that industry stories don’t stay under wraps for long, and for many brands, it is only a matter of time before they find themselves dealing with one form of PR crisis or another. Countless PR crises today arise from the tone-deaf language in advertising or social media campaigns. Be Transparent.

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The ethical importance of knowing when to say “No” – Natasha Koifman

Ethical Voices

She discusses a number of important ethics issues including: The ethical importance knowing when to saying “No”. How to empower your employees to make tough ethical decisions. When I started my agency 20 years ago, I started it because I worked at an advertising agency, and I had to promote everything that got put on my desk.

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The robots have arrived in ethics

PR in High Definition

Neural network-style systems are programmed and trained to reach outcomes, within certain parameters, such as not letting high-risk people buy insurance or creating a category for advertisers to target once a topic reaches a certain threshold of interest amongst users. Handling a crisis in AI. 1] [link]. [2] 2] [link]. [3] 3] [link].

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

Maxim Behar

We were about thirty enthusiasts, PR, marketing and advertising specialists, mainly from Europe, but obviously there was a need to gather at a high level, because in just three years we were already 250 people from all over the world and the forum created its own life, again in Davos. Are they only dealing with crisis PR in this sick time?