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Trust: Business Tops Media and Government in Ethics and Competence, Finds Survey

Sword and the Script

Businesses are increasingly viewed as more ethical and competent than government, media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Business is ethical and competent. According to the survey, business was the only institution that respondents classified as both ethical and competent. click image for higher resolution).

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How To Set Expectations In Public Relations

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Yet corporate PR officers also fall victim to inflated or impractical expectations when their internal clients don’t understand what’s possible. Media relations deals with the news environment, which is by definition unpredictable. On the agency side, it’s sometimes because the team overpromises in their eagerness to win a new client.

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Why it’s important to know many codes of ethics – Erin Kennedy

Ethical Voices

Joining me on this week’s episode is Erin Kennedy , the ethics committee chair for the PRSA Central California Chapter. I also have led the internal communications team and launched a public affairs newsletter and advertorial for a large hospital system in California. So, ethics is a big deal, I would say.

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One key PR ethics lesson from the Pulse nightclub shooting – Ann Marie Varga

Ethical Voices

Thinking about your career from circus to healthcare to agency, what is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted? The most difficult ethical challenge for me occurred following the Pulse nightclub tragedy in 2016. We assigned an intern to her to make sure she ate, to take notes, to answer her phone, to take messages.

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How do you solve a problem like proving the value of public relations to management?

Stephen Waddington

Foster was speaking at the International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communication (AMEC) Summit in Vienna. It became a trusted part of the senior team within organisations helping manage internal and external stakeholders. It’s a young discipline which almost certainly explains the lack of definitions.

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How to Build Trust Ethically and Effectively – Roy Reid

Ethical Voices

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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There’s no debate: Not paying an intern as a PR agency is unethical.

The Hoffman Agency

We recently had a call with a potential PR intern, as part of a series of chats we’re having for new agency hires for the year ahead. He was positive, clearly had a flair for writing, had a great balance between ambition and desire to learn his PR chops, and would definitely fit the culture here at The Hoffman Agency.