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4 Four Tips to Begin (or Amplify) Your Crisis Management Career

PRSay

Crisis and conflict exist for every company, organization or entity; no one is immune to it. To be the very best crisis management professional, you must never stop learning — about your industry, best practices, case studies and the ever-evolving world around you. Florida International University is a proud sponsor of PRSA.

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

Ethical Voices

Thinking about your career from circus to healthcare to agency, what is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted? The most difficult ethical challenge for me occurred following the Pulse nightclub tragedy in 2016. We had a great crisis plan on the shelf, but my gosh, who could have anticipated something like this?

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An Introduction to Ethics Month, With Thanks

PRSay

Each September, PRSA takes the opportunity to spotlight ethics, which must be a constant focus for the PR profession regardless of which month we’re in. Without rigorous study and application of ethical principles, trust is inevitably lost, and without trust the PR function and organizational life deteriorate into dysfunction or failure.

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Crisis communications – academics and practitioners learning and sharing global best practice

Stuart Bruce

Crisis communications was the agenda for last week at the Crisis6 conference where PR and communications academics and practitioners from around the world gathered to … The post Crisis communications – academics and practitioners learning and sharing global best practice appeared first on Stuart Bruce.

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Ethical Issues in Merging the Science and Art of Public Relations: Aaron Kwittken

Ethical Voices

Ethical issues in merging the science and art of public relations. I started in Washington DC in Public Affairs and Crisis Management. Still am a crisis guy and always will be, I think. I learned the ethics challenge very early on in my career. And with the conference Catholic bishops, it was all pro-life campaigning.

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#CrisisRoundup of Awesome Links: Week of October 27, 2014

Melissa Agnes

I wanted to publish a post today on something scary related to crisis and emergency management, but the more I thought about what that something could be, I realized that I probably scare you (at least on some level) every week as I detail the realities and challenges of crisis management in this real-time and digitally-connected world.

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The public relations management gap

Wadds Inc.

I presented the first year of my part time PhD research at the Leeds Business School research conference yesterday. There are five situations that lead to management calling on public relations support: crisis, ethics, credibility, media issues, and leadership.

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