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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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From Crisis Point to Turning Point

Maxim Behar

“The Global PR Revolution” is delving into ethics, morality, accuracy, and transparency — but the fact is that the gist of our job has always been to tell the truth, and this is what we’ve been doing in our everyday lives. Ten years ago, my definition of PR had more to do with “telling the truth in such a way that people will like it.”

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What is Public Relations’ First Responsibility in Ethical Situations? Linda Welter

Ethical Voices

She discusses a number of important ethics topics, including: Where do you draw the competitive line? What is our first responsibility in ethical situations? Ethics issues with influencers Why don’t you tell us more about yourself and your career? I am currently the CEO and Co-owner of the Caliber Group.

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Transforming the Word “CRISIS” from Negative to Positive

Melissa Agnes

He began the message with the sentence: “Why CRISIS is a bad word,” and followed it up with the following wordplay – People: C reate their problems; R eact by blaming others; I nfer that all will be okay; S ecure themselves behind false claims; I ndependent they become instead of working as a collective; and.

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How do you solve a problem like proving the value of public relations to management?

Stephen Waddington

Its role was elevated within organisations as it supported crisis response and transformation. It comes to the fore in a crisis, however there’s a fundamental contradiction. Public relations is just as likely to support an organisation in obfuscating a crisis as it is to help management drive positive organisational change.

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The public relations management gap

Wadds Inc.

There is no formal definition within management, there are countless worldviews, competency and the need for training is well understood but largely ignored, best practice is an aspiration practised by a fifth of organisations rather than the norm, and outputs are rarely measured in terms that management understands.

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What to do when PR Pros accidentally spread misinformation – Kelsey Bohl

Ethical Voices

She discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: Why corporations need to be careful they aren’t the ones spreading misinformation Ethics of data analysis Why PR pros need to change their definition of media Tell us more about your career and yourself? I grew up in West Monroe, Louisiana. What’s that saying?

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