Stuart Bruce

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Since columnist Peter Oborne sensationally resigned from The Telegraph with a devastating public critique of what he believed to be its declining ethical and editorial standards I’ve read very little about the role and implications for PR, corporate communications and business. ” Thereafter no fresh reports appeared.

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Flack's Revenge

JANUARY 15, 2020

What really set me off was an article in BuzzFeed decrying a “ new breed of PR firm that spreads lies and disinformation.” Then, it was social media that was forcing a reckoning for the profession, thrusting PR on a public stage and challenging us to find continued relevance. But this is not just about ethics.

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Journalism Ethics Customer Service Report 156

Ethical Voices

JUNE 6, 2022

I asked them to share insights from a recent journal article they authored titled The Role of Ethical Leadership in Building Influence: Perspectives from Female Public Relations Professionals. . Would you please tell us more about this latest ethics study? Ethical leadership is critical.

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Ethical Voices

JANUARY 30, 2023

He shares several ethics insights, including: Your client is accused of price gauging, now what? How to keep truth at the forefront How to ethically deal with advocacy Tell us more about yourself and your career That column is a great opportunity to how I got to where I am. My background is in radio and television journalism.

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Karen Freberg

AUGUST 15, 2017

With professors who are teaching social media, this can be a daunting and intimidating task in many ways. Teaching social media, as I have written about many times, is a constant prep. I know when I started teaching social media several years ago, this was not the case. What about articles and resources?

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Social Media Media Resources Education 69

Karen Freberg

OCTOBER 17, 2021

However, after reading this latest article that came out from Public Relations Review , I feel I had to say something. This was the article I got inspired to write about my thoughts. I have to give them props for writing this article because I think it will generate a lot of discussion. What was the review process like?

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Most comms pros have some concern about bias across eight different media sources; at one end, 54% expressed strong concerns about social media, while at the other, 28% expressed strong concerns about professional journalists. Are there still two sides to every story? Perhaps not, according to a survey of “11,889 U.S.-based

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PRSay

JANUARY 3, 2018

For much of the past decade, authors of articles such as this one predicted changes in how content would be created and disseminated given the continued emergence of social and other digital-media platforms. Artificial intelligence also has the potential to revolutionize journalism.

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Offleash

JULY 19, 2023

I was working in PR before mobile phones, through the dot-com boom and bust, Y2K, the Internet and Google Search, social media, and certainly before the rise of the machines. I’m not attempting to (age myself or) minimize the actual risks and important ethical questions surrounding this next wave of AI. Do not be afraid.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

This news article was written by Courtney Lukitsch, Founder and Principal at Gotham PR in New York and London. It is no longer credible for a company to say one thing and perform another, when so many design, social media and digital marketing resources exist to optimize results.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 21, 2020

Last Saturday, there was a wonderful article in the Variety section of the Minneapolis Star Tribune about groups of kids who had started neighborhood newspapers during the pandemic. I can’t tell you how much I loved that article–for a couple reasons. And, I fell into a career of writing, social media and blogging.

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Cision

AUGUST 9, 2016

In this interview, Brandon shares why brands shouldn’t focus too much on competitors, how to streamline your pitches to journalists and how social media can help your brand in a crisis. I joined the journalism classes writing news articles for the college news website and began studying public relations for my degree.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 7, 2022

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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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

To prove otherwise, she pulled out her phone, opened up Facebook, scrolled to find the article and then handed me the phone. The article was produced by an outlet that at first glance looked credible. I study organizational persuasion for a living and I knew this was not bona fide journalism. Here are four ways to build trust.

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Content Marketing Marketing Journalism Financial 69

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 18, 2020

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. While it’s 100 pages long and centers on cybersecurity, the first 30 pages or so make excellent reading for professionals in PR, marketing and journalism.

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Film Ethics Employee Data 87

Sword and the Script

JUNE 16, 2015

Writing for a WSJ business blog, Steven Perlberg reported: CNN is creating an in-house studio that will produce news-like content on behalf of advertisers, a move that reflects marketers’ growing desire for articles and videos that feel like editorial work. It’s a question of ethics. There’s value in owned media – its control.

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Maxim Behar

OCTOBER 15, 2023

And in fact, the characteristic of a publisher is to own media. What we do from morning to night is come up with interesting, provocative, and truthful content for the social media that we own. The first difference is that social media is interactive. In all of social media, you can go in and see that analysis.

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Newspapers Meeting Ethics Social Media 59

Stuart Bruce

MAY 29, 2016

Simpson’s explanation of what went wrong is even more alarming: “The supposed facts in the Mail’s article are ludicrously inaccurate. Just imagine how much more complex managing a website and all of the other associated digital and social media will be during a crisis. It’s far more than just media relations.

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Cision

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The revenue model for journalism is at best in flux, and at worst, in chaos. Subscriptions and advertising are down for most media, and there is no single model that can replace them across the sector. Serious journalism from unexpected sources. More data journalism. Check out the 2015 Global Social Journalism Study!

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Maxim Behar

MAY 31, 2021

He travels a lot and often speaks in front of world leaders, practitioners, students, and opinion-makers on the modern public relations and social media topics. But I was such a big fan of journalism, so I became a correspondent, travelled all over the world and met a lot of people. We were helping. This is the PR profession.

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Newspapers Social Media Ethics Travel 52

PR Conversations

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Our professional codes of ethics say that ultimately our role is to serve society and sometimes that is seen as being in conflict with the interests of the organisations that we work for day to day. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Communication Management. Here are the four P cornerstones where my thinking sits right now.

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PR Conversations

JANUARY 29, 2016

These short statements intended for promotion through social media, would hardly qualify as aphorisms, let alone stand the test of time and become memorable quotes. That’s the output of over 2,500 leaders from business, government, international organizations, civil society, academia, media and the arts. Cosmoblogawards.

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Publicity Ethics Creativity Travel 40

Sword and the Script

MARCH 17, 2015

Everyone wants to be in your column or article. They hated the company in a visceral way that defies the calm and impartiality that’s characteristic of journalism. WHY WOULD ANYONE WRITE A PITCH IN ALL CAPS?! Finally I settled on marketers trying to do a little media relations as an additional duty (a terrible idea).

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Beyond PR

JULY 20, 2016

Know your standards: AP News Values and other codes of ethics. Be consistent: Establish a consistent presence in the eyes of the press by using a regular cadence of press releases, social media and other media outreach tactics. Even mainstream media outlets break their coverage into different beats. Learn them.

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Media Relations Media Local Healthcare 40

Flatiron Communications

MAY 20, 2015

Facebook’s “instant articles” _. Q10) Please rank these digital/mobile media properties in order of unique visitors per month: (1-5). Q11) Are these the best of times or worst of times for journalists and journalism? Q12) In which cities do the following news media reside: A12) KPIX-TV _. Mashable __.

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Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

Email is the best way to contact reporters, though social media is a close second. For some in the social media space, these are influencers. This post isn’t about writing a media pitch because we’ve already done that. I need to go to the Irish Examiner and see if I can find her most recent articles.

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Digital PR Report How To Pitching 62

Where the Fishermen Ain't

JUNE 13, 2014

In short, I believe that public relations people who engage in ethical practice have a lot to contribute to the great public resource that is Wikipedia. Contributed Article. BBC , "PR firms pledge ''ethical'' use of Wikipedia". The Wall Street Journal , "PR Firms Vow To Abide Wikipedia’s Rules on Conflicts".

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Wikipedia Agency Ethics Reddit 44

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Image: jbcurio via Flickr , Creative Commons For the few who don’t know or recall, an “ advertorial is an advertisement written in the form of an objective article, and presented in a printed publication – usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news story,” according to Wikipedia. Regardless, thanks for visiting!

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Cision

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In the 1890s, it was called yellow journalism and was a tactic designed by greedy newspaper publishers to sell more newspapers using scandalous (and not necessarily true) headlines. Social media and search engines are riddled with conspiracy theories and misinformation presented as news. So what’s the solution?

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 27, 2019

1) The top challenges in journalism. The State of the Media report by Cision was released this week and provides a window into what’s on the minds of reporters. More than 1/3 of journalists globally publish more than seven articles a week”; and “42% of respondents work on stories no more than a day in advance.”. Volume of work.

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Communications Conversations

AUGUST 31, 2018

Let’s hear from four former media people–Vineeta Sawkar (formerly of KSTP-TV), Jay Olstad (formerly of KARE-11), Lynn Melling (former anchor in the Des Moines market), and Dan DeBaun (formerly of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal). Vineeta Sawkar, senior media relations manager, University of St.

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Mindful Marketing

MAY 3, 2024

” It was a question I heard while watching Bloomberg business one February many years ago that helped inspire me to write about ethical issues in marketing. population, ranging from four-year-olds to ninety-four-year-olds, watched the last Super Bowl, everyone should be asking, “Are the ads ethical?”

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Ethical Voices

MARCH 28, 2022

Ellen addresses a number of important ethics issues including: What to do when your ethical values diverge from your employer’s values? What is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted at work? Ethics is very important to me. But it was a struggle for me ethically.

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Ethics Strategy Real Estate Local 52

PR Fuel

JUNE 5, 2020

It’s understandable if you’re wondering why you should focus on press releases on top of your normal email marketing, social media outreach, or website copy. Establishing Media Relationships. Journalists often utilize brand press releases in order to quickly gain relevant information for their articles and pieces.

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Contently - Strategy

APRIL 14, 2021

” A 2020 report published in the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Sciences noted that more than half (around 53 percent) of consumers queried about their comfort level with targeted ads were at least “slightly uncomfortable” with the practice. “Pay-per-click will also likely go up for social media ads.”

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Take for example the first sentence from this PRWeek article by David Blecken, February 9, 2015 (ya, going on two years old now), where he quotes Lou Hoffman of The Hoffman Agency. This article from 1963 by Sylvia Porter , in the Meriden Journal , carries the subheading “Policing Public Relations.”

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This sharp contrast to the way many traditional media databases work: where some underpaid non-native-English speaking person living off-shore has designated a reporter to a beat, like “tech” which is too broad to be meaningful and leads to a deluge of PR spam for reporters. The company also rolled out coverage spikes.

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