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Crisis Comms, AI and Ethics: January Roundup

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

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. Our take: Top-notch communications and PR professionals know that now is always the best time to prepare for a crisis — before it happens.

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93 Ethics Issues for Thanksgiving Dinner Discussion in 2023

Ethical Voices

As Thanksgiving approaches, I wanted to take a minute and just say how thankful I am to the outstanding students in my Public Relations Ethics class (COM525) as Boston University. We start every class by discussing ethical issues we have seen or read about over the past week. And only a few deal with sports…. . Disclosure?

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Succeeding with Conscience: Navigating Ethical Challenges in Career Growth – Bradley Akubuiro

Ethical Voices

Joining me on this week’s episode is Bradley Akubuiro , a partner at Bully Pulpit Interactive , where he focuses on corporate reputation, executive communications, and high visibility crisis management and media relations efforts. What is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted at work?

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Top 7 Communication Resources

Critical Mention

With that said, if you’re looking to grow your brand, brush up on media ethics and improve your writing skills, PRSSA Webinars are the perfect fit for your learning needs. During her leisure time, she loves to watch her favorite sports teams and explore new restaurants with friends and family. The New Rules of Marketing & PR.

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7 Lessons That Ryan Lochte’s Olympic Crisis Can Teach PR Pros

MaccaPR

But oh, lordy – we as communications and marketing professionals can receive a master class in what NOT to do during a crisis from Lochte’s self-immolation at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. AdAge quoted a sports marketing expert as saying Lochte had become nothing less than “radioactive” for endorsers.

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We Must Confront the Uncomfortable Truths – Roger Bolton

Ethical Voices

He discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: It’s great to be with you, Mark. Thinking over your career, what is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted at work? If you want to do sports or celebrity, a lot of them do great, somebody needs to go do that. Technology is at the heart of it.

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What are the three types of PR crisis?

NewsWhip

One small mistake can send an organization into a spiraling PR crisis that can severely damage their reputation and trustworthiness with the public. . Reputational crisis. Public safety crisis. The first crisis was over a software communication error that caused over 12,000 U.S. Financial crisis.

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