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One key PR ethics lesson from the Pulse nightclub shooting – Ann Marie Varga

Ethical Voices

Pete area, but I’ve worked in agencies, corporations, and my experience spans a variety of industries including academia, banking, government, healthcare, tourism, and utilities. Thinking about your career from circus to healthcare to agency, what is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted?

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The Ethical Implications of Blurred Lines – Cheryll Forsatz

Ethical Voices

Joining me on this week’s episode of EthicalVoices is Cheryll Forsatz , the Vice President of Corporate Communications and Public Relations for Ferrero USA. I am a corporate communications and brand strategist with more than 25 years of experience working with global consumer brands. Now, internal is external.

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Professional Conflict of Interest: Failure to Disclose Erodes Client’s Trust

PRSay

The college intern who had been working with the agency on my company’s account that summer was the son of the CEO of our biggest competitor. The competitor’s CEO and our intern had the same fairly common last name. The competitor’s CEO and our intern had the same fairly common last name. Yes, said the intern.

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Too many beers: ethics and client conflicts – Ken Kerrigan

Ethical Voices

Joining me in this week’s episode is Ken Kerrigan , a Vice President at Infinite Global , an international communications firm specializing in public relations, branding, and content. Ken discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: Too many beers – Ethics and client conflicts. That situation arose.

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How To Set Expectations In Public Relations

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

On the agency side, it’s sometimes because the team overpromises in their eagerness to win a new client. Yet corporate PR officers also fall victim to inflated or impractical expectations when their internal clients don’t understand what’s possible. With this, my mind is fresh everyday to think creatively for clients.

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Edelman Falls Short As PR Industry Leader

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

It’s always instructive when PR teams entrusted with managing the reputations of major corporations run into reputation problems of their own. Mega-agency Edelman recently made waves by resigning a lucrative engagement working with for-profit corrections company The GEO Group, a top contractor for ICE. Adweek has receipts.

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

PRSay

the French conglomerate that had $11 billion in revenue last year, is the first marketing agency to face a lawsuit in the opioid crisis. In a statement, the agency said: “We proudly support organizations fighting the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts and across the country. Publicis Health acted solely as an advertising agency.

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