Blount County’s Long Community Nightmare is Over
It should never be this difficult or expensive to dismiss an utterly toxic individual who’s arguably driving a desperately needed community healthcare resource into the ground.
Mary Beth West
Pellissippi State: High Schools Fuel Diverse PR / Comms Workforce Pipeline
A new program in East Tennessee is helping diverse high school students gain career pathways into PR, media, and communications careers. Industry partners are welcomed to join!
Grappling for AI Relevancy, BEPS is Blasé to PRSA’s Tech and Financial Violations
PRSA’s AI white paper is awash in “do as we say, not as we do” hypocrisies, neglecting disclosure of many recent PRSA violations of member trust.
Remembering Hickory Construction’s Chuck Alexander
In 15 years of operating my PR firm in Blount County, one of my favorite clients was Hickory Construction… and alongside Hickory’s Pinnell Family, two of my favorite pillars of the Blount County / Greater Knoxville community have always been…
Are the PRSA Foundation’s Race-Based Scholarships Unconstitutional?
The PRSA Foundation faces potential legal and PR problems with the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision on race-based academic preferences.
Tech-Hub Snub: Biden’s Tennessee Pass Raises Qs of Awards Methodology
Were taxpayer-funded Biden Administration Tech Hub awards based on pure proposal merit... or a Decision '24 strategy?
What a Difference a Year Makes in Blount Memorial Land
"It’s been 13 months since I first called publicly for more than zero women to serve on my community’s hospital board." - @marybethwest
PRSA-NY to Jewish Community: #SorryNotSorry, We’re No Longer Sorry
In a self-made PR crisis of moral reversal, PRSA New York apologizes with an anti-Israel statement days after its pro-Israel statement.
World Mental Health Day 2023 (10 Oct) Deserves Urgent PR Industry Attention
October 10, 2023 will mark World Mental Health Day, and if there is any industry more ripe for taking notice and – more importantly – taking action toward better outcomes, it’s the public relations (PR) sector. Two years ago, executive…
New PR Ethics Code Research Reveals Rampantly Outdated & Undated Codes
If a public relations (PR) ethics code hasn’t been meaningfully updated since before the dawn of social media and is widely locked in a myopic, media-relations-centric time-warp, then it’s missing massive chunks of essential treatment of contemporary issues.