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This Week in PR Ethics (10/20/22): Favela Tours, Virtuous Radio Hosts, and Virus Research

Ethical Voices

This week there were a wide range of ethical issues from slum tourism to sensationalistic news to the importance of stakeholders. But my favorite is celebrating the positive, virtuous action by a radio station show host. The ethics of Favela tours – Fodor’s looks at the return of Favela Tours in Rio and asks – are they ethical?

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PR Ethics: What Happens When There is a Coup?  – Alex Dance

Ethical Voices

For Ethics Month, I wanted to look at new topics and geographies. He discusses several important ethics issues, including: What should you do when clients are even tangentially affiliated with a coup? Ethical challenges with clickbait. That’s obviously not ethical. The state of misinformation in Cambodia.

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Maxim Behar On "Focus" Radio: PR Experts Need To Know How To Use The Advantages Of AI, But Also Not Forget About The Risks.

Maxim Behar

Given the fast development in this field, AI has the potential to optimize processes and assist in addressing ethical dilemmas in agencies and companies. Maxim Behar: Good morning to Radio Focus! At the World Organization, we accepted these principles for ethical behavior in using AI. Ethics and regulations."

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The most important ethics priority for healthcare communicators – Kena Lewis

Ethical Voices

Kena discusses several important ethics issues, including: What to do ethically when your boss is the problem. The ethical challenges of online identity. The most important ethics priority for healthcare communicators. I started in radio as a reporter and made the jump to PR about 35 years ago.

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6 PR Pitching Pitfalls And How To Avoid Them

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

For example, becoming a repeat offender of misfired or irrelevant pitches is a quick way to see your email domain blackballed, making your job twice as difficult. For example, don’t promise a collection of reporters an embargo and another contact an earlier exclusive simultaneously. Conversely, too much follow-up is a mistake.

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The Consequences of Misinformation

PRSay

As public-square speakers were eventually replaced by newspapers, and then radio and television, a set of journalistic ethics would lay the foundation for news gathering and reporting. In my view, professional communicators also have a moral obligation to follow these three, fundamental tenets: Set the example.

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Maxim Behar: Social media is the realm of free speech, which makes our world better

Maxim Behar

An established media outlet - a newspaper, television, television channel, or radio - can also publish wrong information. In social media, every person, living anywhere, can publish faster and more reliable information than, for example, a newspaper. But it's like dividing car drivers into professionals and amateurs.