PR Pros to Gain Valuable Insights During SPJ Ethics Week, April 15-19
The PR industry can learn a lot from journalism's own ethics code as well as challenges faced in today's newsrooms.
Category Ethics
In the Room Where it Happened: PRSA and the Case of the “Missing” Fellows
PRSA's College of Fellows is in trouble, with one-third of its members M.I.A. But given years of such bad history, who can blame defectors?
5 Critical Gaps in PRSA’s (Very) Outdated PR Ethics Code
With massive bylaw / compliance conflicts, PRSA’s unenforced Code of Ethics hasn’t been updated since Bill Clinton was POTUS.
CPRE Reports Ethical Competency Shortfalls for PR Grads / New Pros
The Commission on Public Relations Education (CPRE) reports ethical competency shortfalls of PR graduates / new professionals. But are PR ethics codes partially to blame?
Postcard from Paris: EBEF ’24 Shines for Evidence-Based Ethics in City of Light
Trust cannot exist without evidence-based ethics. The 2024 European Business Ethics Forum illuminated this fact well in the City of Light.
2024 European Business Ethics Forum to Include Insights on Strategic Comms
To advance ethics in strategic communication, it's critical to reach boardroom and c-suite leaderships well outside the PR industry.
Are Americans “Over It!” with News? And To What End This Election Year?
In matters of perceived media bias, have some traditional news sources pushed Americans to the point where they no longer care?
There’s a Word for PRSA Falsifying its APR+M Pentagon MOU: Fraud
For more than a decade, PRSA claimed to have a legitimate "Memorandum of Understanding" (MOU) with the U.S. Dept. of Defense. They were lying.
P.R. Popcorn Alert: “I Hate Math!” Anti-Mantra Cracks Under PRSA’s $5 Mill Error
In 2016, PRSA’s Chairman declared the words “I hate math!” as PR anathema. Now, in 2024, PRSA's new $5 million balance sheet discrepancy underscores its corruption.
5 Revelations from DEI-Focused PRSA Foundation’s Latest IRS Tax Filing
With a $300,000 loss at the Diversity Action Alliance, PRSA members deserve to know what their own Foundation "charity" is really doing on DEI.