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.

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Ethical Voices

JUNE 12, 2023

What is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted? I’m in the middle of working with a client where there are six messaging guides I have to write. Thinking about the current challenges of AI and ethics and communications, what are a few things that you think public relations professionals should keep in mind?

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Mindful Marketing

JULY 16, 2022

by David Hagenbuch - professor of Marketing at Messiah University - ​author of Honorable Influence - founder of Mindful Marketing “ Auditors Cheated on Ethics Exams ”—a recent New York Times headline revealed. Who would cheat on ethics?— The Security and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.)

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Through the years, the PR and comms fields have been attractive landing spots for journalists with their writing and storytelling skills and media prowess. Journalists have excellent communications skills, such as writing and the ability to speak clearly and concisely. Many of the most successful PR executives were former journalists.

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Wadds Inc.

JUNE 5, 2023

Amanda Coleman's Everyday Communications Strategies provides advice on proactively managing issues in corporate communication. Coleman’s pedigree in crisis communications is unrivalled, having been the Head of Corporate Communications for Greater Manchester Police. Coleman’s manual is reassuringly comprehensive.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Write every document, email, text and Teams message as if it could eventually show up on the front page of The New York Times. Will you be able to legally, ethically, reputationally defend the advice you gave? How do your words make you look as a person? Voice your concerns — often. Go over people’s heads if you have to.

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Wadds Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A variety of alternative terms are frequently used to describe practice such as brand communication, corporate communication, corporate affairs, and integrated marketing communication. This relegates the role of practitioners to writing press releases, making posters, and organising parties. It’s a long-term project.

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PRSay

JULY 10, 2023

A corporate mission in action means being proactive about how the organization demonstrates its values to the world. corporations that continued to do business in Russia after the invasion. She writes about nonprofit branding and purpose marketing as a regular contributor to Adweek and Brandingmag.

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Nearly a decade ago, the PRSA Foundation sponsored research that found only 23 percent of graduate business schools consistently provide instruction in reputation management, corporate communications and related ethical dimensions. Students write about a current event and critique the assessment.

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 3, 2019

From going to prison after being convicted for violating the FCPA (the US foreign anti-bribery law) to founding Front-Line Anti-Bribery LLC, and educating multinationals on current issues and challenges with respect to compliance, ethics and anti-bribery, Richard Bistrong has come a long way. When I was asked to speak outside of the U.S.,

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PRSay

APRIL 11, 2018

I have a wide range of experience, from internal to corporate to digital communications. I spent about a month assembling my presentation binder, writing talking points and rehearsing. The relationships that individuals in our society have with mass media, corporations and governmental agencies are convoluted and intertwined.

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Ethical Voices

APRIL 17, 2023

Joining me on this week’s episode of EthicalVoices is Roger Bolton , the president of Page , the premier global professional association for senior corporate communications executives. He discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: It’s great to be with you, Mark. Thank you so much for the opportunity.

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PRSay

JANUARY 8, 2019

Whether you serve a large corporation, small nonprofit, major research university or municipal government, at some point your boss has probably said, “We need more media attention. Keep it ethical. To foster and strengthen these relationships, always do your work ethically. The webinar is available for free to PRSA members.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 2, 2019

PR is one of the best ways to build visibility for a corporate brand while getting the word out about a given product or service. See this post for tips on writing stellar executive bylines. And a fundamental part of any effective PR campaign is a healthy focus on executive visibility. Become a constant at conferences.

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Maxim Behar

MAY 16, 2024

You came, you promised, met with ministers and mayors, and now you're telling me today to write five sentences, and let's go back to Chicago. We've talked to over a hundred journalists in the last few months; we need to invite them all again and explain this corporate decision. So that's it! No way, gentleman!". WE must do it now.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Recently I went back through all the write-ups I’ve published on surveys and boiled the results down to these ten. Blogs, including independent and corporate blogs, can be credible. is $100,000 in 2020; it’s higher for in-house PR and corporate communications roles at $145,500 and lower for PR agencies at $90,000. The results?

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Critical Mention

AUGUST 20, 2020

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. Early on in her career, she developed a passion for marketing, writing and anything within the communication field. The New Rules of Marketing & PR.

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Journalistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Media ethics forbid this, but advertising packages often come with editorial opportunities, access to journalists, or advertorials. Do you completely disagree and believe journalism ethics are alive and well today? Paid stories disguised as editorial. Is there a separation between editorial and advertising? Let me know.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 29, 2020

Studies find media relations isn’t the top PR service anymore; PR weakness on technical skills; execs are key to shaping corporate social positions Several interesting reports on the PR industry were published earlier in 2020 but got lost in the blur that unfolded since. This weekend, I had a chance to go back and review a few of them.

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PRSay

JANUARY 3, 2018

Writing and presentation development will still be strongly emphasized, but successful PR practitioners of the future must also be adept at business, content creation, environmental scanning, managing people, ethics, purpose-driven corporate social responsibility, stakeholder engagement and interpreting data and analytics.

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Ethical Voices

JANUARY 22, 2024

He discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: What to do when your client asks you to besmirch the competition How to effectively and ethically build trust What to do when employees, clients and partners break your trust Why don’t you tell us a little bit more about yourself and your career?

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Stephen Waddington

OCTOBER 12, 2018

You’ll get a measure of the individual's seniority and maturity from their writing. I know that the vast majority of us are ethical and practice professionally — we'd never lie about something in order to avoid negative coverage, or deliberately misrepresent what our organisations do in order to make them appear more favourable.

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Polaris

DECEMBER 11, 2014

When I graduated from Ivey back in the ’80s, reputation management and its kin, corporate social responsibility, were foreign concepts. I recall a finance class in first year when someone mentioned ethics. and the professor promptly wrote the word “ethics” in really tiny letters in a corner of the chalkboard.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 25, 2018

What’s notable about the film, for anyone who writes for a living, is its masterful use of language. As we have noted , the best way to improve writing is to read a variety of texts, from creative to journalistic. But it’s all a learning experience, as our heroine sets out to leave it behind for school in New York.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

High demand for experienced communicators “Corporate communications professionals will continue to advance into top organizational leadership roles as their unrivaled combination of business strategy and stakeholder insight continues to become more essential. .” ~ Scott Kaminski , Senior Marketing Manager, Häfele America Co.

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MaccaPR

JULY 2, 2014

According to that same PRSA Wikipedia survey, 60 percent of corporate and agency PR professionals saw factual errors in their Wikipedia pages. The best thing to do is to not write an article at all. Follow his Facebook group, Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement (CREWE), to learn more. Suggest edits.

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Wadds Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2023

The masterful public relations professional understands the enormous value of living a personal and professional life that reflects the highest standards of moral conduct and ethical behaviour. They are proverbial rotten apples that attempt to spoil many of us in public relations practice who abide by the highest ethical standards.

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Communications Conversations

MARCH 29, 2019

Of course, I couldn’t write a post like this without nominating a couple people myself! Courtney landed her permanent role off a 6-month social media internship in the Corporate Communications department at UnitedHealth Group. I put a few guidelines on this–these folks had to be non-manager/non-director level.

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Communications Conversations

MARCH 6, 2018

I’m the head of Cargill’s corporate-level social media team and oversee all social media at Cargill. I am also responsible for helping people across the company manage social media accounts that are not corporate-level accounts. I also manage the corporate-level team, which is about to have members on four continents.

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Stuart Bruce

MAY 29, 2016

I actually laughed out loud when I read this story about the BBC’s world affairs editor John Simpson setting up a corporate consultancy to advise on crisis communications and then even more rapidly closing it again because of the crisis it created. According to his agent: “Simpson has not yet taken on any corporate work.”

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Maxim Behar

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Host: Now, other than getting inspired by our young leaders, we're going to talk about a core issue we brought up earlier a few times, ethics, how to practice and how to really leverage AI with ethics. We've been listening to a lot about AI and a lot about ethics. A lot of people were asking me, what is business ethics?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2020

We will continue to cover that, but we are starting to write about how Detroit automakers are moving forward. Whether it’s the technology, legislation, customer acceptance, infrastructure, ethics or other factors surrounding driverless cars, there’s plenty to write about.”. Ford Motor Co. 5 – Green Tech.

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PR Job Coach

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

As noted in a past post on internships, PRSA believes it is ethically improper to employ anyone who adds real value to a public relations agency or department without compensating them for their work – whether that compensation is monetary or in the form of educational credits. If it is not paid, steer clear.

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Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Email newsletters are a particularly useful tool for financial services companies, especially if you’re writing about personal finance. For nearly five decades, Money was a glossy finance magazine published by Meredith Corporation. Try a new audience with a new offering. Keep topics personal and relatable.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 10, 2011

I finished my masters degree in PR and corporate communication at the end of 2009 – only 19 months ago. PR writing: My degree never had a dedicated PR writing course, although writing activities across the abovementioned subjects certainly did help build my writing skills.

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PR Conversations

AUGUST 7, 2014

I toyed with “61 ways to know if you’re ready for wearables,” tip-toed around “True Life: Why PR was disconnected from the Internet of Everything” and dallied with “Must watch: 17 corporate data disasters that killed the companies,” as my post title. The wake up call.

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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

It has a long, positive track record of serving brands —both personal and professional—in their times of need, offering services that range from: Corporate cybersecurity Defensive reputation management Online privacy protection Online reputation management solutions Online review generation.

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