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Crisis Comms, AI and Ethics: January Roundup

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

Top management has been accessible and available to the media, and Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun met with US senators last week to answer questions. Purina: In other news, Purina is dealing with a social media crisis as pet food safety is questioned by pet owners’ Facebook groups and then amplified on TikTok.

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PR ethics and journalism ethics in the face of media business meltdown

Stuart Bruce

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. But two wrongs don’t make a right.

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4 Myths about AI and PR

Offleash

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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Evolving Roles and Responsibilities in Public Relations

Deirdre Breakenridge

For years, I’ve been discussing the changing roles of PR professionals as a result of social media. Their study, “ Roles in Social Media: How the Practice of Public Relations is Evolving ” was published by PR Journal in Summer / Fall 2016. Q: What made you pursue your research study on “Roles in Social Media?”

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Current (and future) of PR scholarship and research

Karen Freberg

My Mom was really, really surprised they had *no* research or citations to the work that had been done previously (and been cited and discussed in journals and in the popular press) at all. However, when it comes to certain areas like crisis communication, social media, and now influencer marketing – yes.

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PR problem? Hire a journalist… or rather don’t if you want to have successful PR

Stuart Bruce

I actually laughed out loud when I read this story about the BBC’s world affairs editor John Simpson setting up a corporate consultancy to advise on crisis communications and then even more rapidly closing it again because of the crisis it created. It would be even funnier if it wasn’t so tragic.

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How to Effectively Counsel Those That Want to Make Unethical Decisions – Cathy Morley Foster

Ethical Voices

She discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: How to effectively counsel those that want to make unethical decisions. And I still adhere to the principles that he espoused, which were principles of PRSA, but they were also his personal values and how he viewed ethics. The importance of expertise and common sense.

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