Deirdre Breakenridge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

PRSA has designated September as “Ethics Month” with a wide variety of activities to educate and inform members and industry professionals. In the spirit of Ethics Month, #PRStudChat welcomes Kirk Hazlett , APR, Fellow PRSA, on Tuesday, September 15th at 8:30 p.m. As always, we welcome your questions before or during the chat session.

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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. We found several key things.

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Ethical Voices

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

I first met him when I pitched him for a client, and we soon discovered we both went to Syracuse around the same time and had friends in common and wanted to talk about ethics. Scott discusses a number of important ethics topics including. The ethics of press trips. The ethics of reviews and selling products you review.

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Ethical Voices

AUGUST 1, 2022

Ken discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: Too many beers – Ethics and client conflicts. Can corporations really be ethical media enterprises? We get into a little bit about ethical dilemmas that we might face in the profession, including in today’s stakeholder driven world. That situation arose.

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Ethical Voices

AUGUST 22, 2022

She discusses a number of important issues, including: The ethical challenges of weaponized communication. The Center for Humane Technology talks about how new technologies are not ethical or not civil in a way that they influence. That is not ethical. Speaking of advice, what is the best piece of ethics advice you were given?

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Here are four tips to help you build better content creation practices by getting inspired and taking inspiration from others—without crossing any ethical lines. You don’t want to create a nightmare for your PR team—and you definitely don’t way to pay their subsequent therapy bill. How to avoid plagiarizing content.

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PR in High Definition

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

PR ethics are a serious subject – and as soon as the subject becomes personal, the interest levels rise. The recent Bell Pottinger case has put bad ethical judgement in the spotlight and there’s no question that inciting racial hatred is an indefensible and unethical one. I hope not. So then, just how sound is your judgement?

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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. It’s opinions on social media all day long, 24/7.

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PR in High Definition

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

That’s where Ethical OS comes in. So, next time you come up with a brand-new piece of tech, try running it past the Ethical OS first to see if it’s really worth following through – it could save a part of society (and your reputation!). The post Tool of the Month: Ethical OS appeared first on Firefly Communications.

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Mindful Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

I’d recently written a couple of pieces about AI and ethics based on some extended conversations I’d had with ChatGPT. In those discussions I probed the bot’s moral mind, asking it almost any ethical question I could conceive. Furthermore, assessing consequences is just one facet of ethics.

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Ethical Voices

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

How to protect your company’s reputation when other similar brands are having ethics failures. Why we need to keep ethics front and center. What is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted at work? As ethical public relations professionals, we need to be transparent at all times. I am a utility nerd.

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PR in High Definition

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The post The robots have arrived in ethics appeared first on Firefly Communications. Above all, when you’re dealing with a machine crisis, the most important thing is to think like a human. [1] 1] [link]. [2] 2] [link]. [3] 3] [link]. [4]

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Stuart Bruce

JANUARY 5, 2015

The definition of PR is also directly related to the future of public relations in an age where some are questioning its future and value as digital and social continue to blur traditional lines of demarcation. ” The PRSA’s definition was updated in 2012 as a result of a crowd-sourcing discussion.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In the state’s definition, Sephora said, “‘Sale’ includes common, industry-wide technology practices such as cookies, which allow us to provide consumers with more relevant Sephora product recommendations, personalized shopping experiences and ads.”. Illustration credit: kentoh.

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Maxim Behar

AUGUST 4, 2022

Over the years I have created many definitions of what PR is. My last definition from last year is that PR is basically telling the truth so that you are understood and nothing more. It doesn't seem likely that someone wanted to scam the people through power.

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Wadds Inc.

JANUARY 22, 2023

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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Ethical Voices

APRIL 3, 2023

What is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted at work? The good thing is I had a great leadership team and we were able to sit there for sometimes hours and just talk about what’s not only right and wrong, but what’s ethical and really kind of debate it. I definitely don’t do it in a vacuum.

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Masters in Communications

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Types of Mass Communication History of Mass Communication Mass Communication Theories Ethical Issues for Mass Communications What Does the Future of Mass Communications Look Like? While there remains a definite wealth gap, that filters into other areas and translates socially into a knowledge gap based on ongoing access to outlets (33).

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PRSay

JANUARY 20, 2023

As an organization, we need to be focused on what the ethics issues are.” Recession, layoffs and protecting careers “We definitely see instability in the economy and that is going to lead to organizations tightening their belts and some layoffs,” Egan said. We shouldn’t have our focus on whether it’s going to take away jobs. “I

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PR in High Definition

JULY 8, 2014

Below is the transcript of Firefly CEO, Claire Walker’s opposition to the motion that “Wearable technology is an ethical nightmare for the PR, marketing and communications professions” given during a CIPR debate at the House of Commons on the 7th July 2014.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 24, 2022

Practitioners and theorists both jump to the defence of public relations from a purist perspective recognising only a positive and ethical application of practice as public relations. It’s a young discipline which almost certainly explains the lack of definitions. The public makes no such distinction.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Each September, PRSA recognizes Public Relations Ethics Month, supported by programs presented by the PRSA Board of Ethics and Professional Standards (BEPS). This year’s theme, Public Relations Ethics: Strengthening Our Core, guides a special focus on the six core values highlighted in the PRSA Code of Ethics.

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PR in High Definition

JUNE 29, 2015

The post Ethics in the PR industry: Are you a spinner, smoother or soother appeared first on Firefly Communications. We all have a crazed moment of hating and sounding off about certain professions, and generalising a group of professionals or workers as @%?£!’s s as (add your preferred assortment of expletives, all insulting).

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Shift Communications

MAY 16, 2023

Definitely check him out. Is it good, is it bad, is it legal or ethical – will it kill us… Segways anyone ? Artificial Intelligence’s impact on business can’t be contested. Zain Kahn, aka The AI Guy , has a lot to say about the space and is tracking all the cool developments. And boy do we like it.

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Ethical Voices

OCTOBER 3, 2022

She discusses a number of important PR ethics issues including: What to do when you are uneasy with your company’s growth strategy? What is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted at work? I spoke with Tony D’Angelo and Mike McDougall , about ethics scenarios and layoffs and they had great insight and advice.

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Wadds Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

I would caution you against asking a public relations practitioner to provide a definition of what they do as you’re likely to get a variety of answers. Public relations historian Dr Rex Harlow interviewed 65 practitioners for a paper published in Public Relations Review in 1976 and unearthed 472 definitions. It's an age-old issue.

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Maxim Behar

MAY 18, 2023

Ethics, transparency, and honesty are needed these days more than ever and all businesses must know this very clearly. From the very beginning of his business, back almost 30 years ago he knew this, and despite all the difficulties and all the shaking times his company was always fair and ethical. This is my definite understanding.,”

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Deirdre Breakenridge

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

By Pew Research Center definition, having been born in 1996, I am a Millennial (although many would argue that I should identify as a Gen Y/Z cusper, or “zillennial.”) With newfound empathetic growth, and existing strengths in ethics, passion, and facing my fears, I should ideally be able to connect and communicate better than ever before.

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Ethical Voices

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Sandy discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: What to do ethically when a reporter wants to showcase a vulnerable person. The ethics of how we are covering Kanye West. That in itself could probably be a whole other episode, but I definitely told them that was incorrect. Congratulations on that.

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Wadds Inc.

JANUARY 11, 2023

The shiny new toy is an ethical minefield. It generated a plausible definition of public relations from the 600 or more in research literature on the click of a button. A definition of public relations generated by artificial intelligence.

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Communications Conversations

JULY 16, 2020

Yep, definitely a compliment. I’m usually asked to sign an NDA with most clients, so technically (and, more importantly, ethically), I can’t say a word to anyone about what they tell me (and, I wouldn’t want to). Because, for a client to say that it means they trust you implicitly. The clients know this.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 18, 2019

As the PRSA Code of Ethics states, “protecting and advancing the free flow of accurate and truthful information is essential to serving the public interest and contributing to informed decision-making in a democratic society.”. Of course, another definition for “spin” is a physical activity that makes us disoriented.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Media relations deals with the news environment, which is by definition unpredictable. Others may have a completely different work style or service ethic, but the point is that it should be communicated at the outset. We’re living through COVID-19 and a presidential election year, and both eat up a huge amount of media bandwidth.

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Flack's Revenge

APRIL 20, 2017

The NY Times wrote that we can’t even agree on the basic definitions of words. Adhere to highest ethical standards. Let people know that it does not equal propaganda or fake news (in this post , I propose a definition of the latter). One can find “evidence” of any theory one wants online. Do yourself and the field a favor.

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PR in High Definition

APRIL 27, 2023

An ESG programme ultimately serves as a framework for measuring the sustainability and ethical impact of a company’s operations. ESG is short for Environmental, Social, Governance, so there are a host of wrap around components, like skills development, workforce reform or equality and social impact on communities.

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PR in High Definition

APRIL 26, 2021

But investors are also beginning to factor in other elements, particularly those associated with reputation and ethics, when deciding to invest in companies. For Deliveroo, concerns over workers’ rights due to its gig economy-led workforce was a risk that investors weren’t willing to take, given the ethical and legal issues involved.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 11, 2020

I think certain outlets definitely have a bent toward a specific ‘side’ but many reporters are curious about learning the facts. The Effects of PR Ethics on Media Bias If this survey question feels like it’s piling on the media, it’s not intended to do so. Sensational beats fair. “Is Is anyone objective and unbiased? Infotainment.

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