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PRSA Releases Ethical Guidance on AI for Communicators

PRSay

PRSA has released a comprehensive framework titled “Promise and Pitfalls: The Ethical Use of AI for Public Relations Practitioners.” This guidance (which you can find here ) aligns with PRSA’s Code of Ethics and offers best practices to prevent and manage ethical challenges arising from the improper use of AI tools.

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Can Ethical PRs Represent Unethical Clients?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

At the same time, there’s a bigger incentive for communicators to do the right thing. Just look at the pressure on the comms team at Facebook, which has come to epitomize the struggle to do ethical work at a company that is acting in bad faith. But ethical behavior starts with the individual. What about repeated actions?

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How Can We Mandate Ethics In PR?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

At times PR agencies run afoul of ethical standards by trafficking in false or misleading information, hiding conflicts of interest, or working with a lack of transparency. My view is that good PR people can ethically represent bad clients – but only if they’re doing so in an effort to change or redeem the harm done.

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A Commitment to Sharing Only Accurate and Truthful Information

PRSay

And the work of our corporate communications team had turned to sharing accurate, timely information and serving as an important adjunct to under-resourced public health agencies. As communicators, our team wasn’t just fighting a pandemic, we were waging a war — a war on misinformation. Illustration credit: bakhtiarzein ].

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10 ethical issues facing public relations - PRCA Ethics Council Annual

Stephen Waddington

The PRCA Ethics Council has published its annual perspective of ethical challenging facing PR practice in 2021. The Council was launched in May 2020 to raise ethical standards in PR around the world. Here are ten of the ethical issues facing practitioners highlighted in PRCA Ethics Council Annual Perspective 2021.

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Crisis Comms, AI and Ethics: January Roundup

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

This post is the first of our new monthly roundup series, where once a month, we’ll identify hot topics that PR pros and communicators should be aware of, along with our own takes on them. 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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Ethical Standards in the Public Relations Industry

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

Sure, every profession has bad actors; however, ethical behavior is inherently required in the practice of public relations. By the nature of the profession, PR pros are morally bound to act ethically. These articles reference at least a few of the ‘ethics codes’ of PR industry associations in the US and UK.

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