Mary Beth West: “When it comes to politics and its current negative impact on PR, Mr. Holmes and I appear to agree on practically nothing.”

In a new batch of ethics violations, PRSA recruits a partisan front group as PRSSA’s “client” for the Bateman Case Study Competition.

Late author Stephen Covey famously wrote, “You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!” Tell that to PRSA… and now, to the NY Attorney General, too.

When choosing a style of public critique about a family member’s politics, be a Shriver, not a Kennedy.

The ACEJMC university accreditation body for journalism, advertising, and PR is so compromised that a U.S. Department of Justice investigation is overdue to fix it.

Cannes Lions 2025 will take place June 16-20. For PR pros looking to build their creativity muscle at this year’s festival, planning ahead is key.

As New Year ’25 begins, the PR industry must take stock of “Trump White House / Part Deux” — amid the industry’s big partisanship problem.

The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) quietly whispers news that the ethics-embattled PR association faces new turnover in its CEO position.

Ever heard of the fascist Trump Accountability Project? Of course you haven’t.

At ECI’s #IMPACT2024 Conference, a PR ethics session will explore compliance implications of documented ethics gaps in PR education.

With PRSA’s International Conference and Assembly only days away, PRSA’s longtime legal counsel, Venable LLP, faces the Doug Emhoff PR crisis.

While ethics in public relations is and should be, without question, a year-round priority and endeavor for all PR industry leaders, agencies, and practitioners, we traditionally set the spotlight on ethics in the month of September. Please join The #PRethicsCommunity on the LinkedIn platform, which – as newly launched only in recent weeks – is…

Has the United Kingdom launched a tragic descent down a free-speech-suppression slippery slope, from which freedom-loving UK citizens may never recover? If elected to the White House, would the Kamala Harris Administration seek to adopt similar “internet troll” incarceration powers in the US as Labour’s UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer now wields, with seeming impunity?…

The global PR trade press has spoken. Or at least one of them has. PR trade publication PRovoke Media – living up to its name – has awarded the booby prize to U.S. President Joe Biden as the “worst communicator among the world’s leaders,” beating out prior perennial favorite, Vladimir Putin. Let that sink in.…

Strategic communicators who work in public relations — as well as other professionals, academicians, and students who seek to learn more about ethical PR — can join The #PRethics Community on the LinkedIn professional social media platform. The #PRethics Community is a gathering place for public relations (PR) and communication professionals, leaders, academicians / researchers,…

In December 2021, PRSA only had 15,652 regular members, not “more than 30,000 members” as falsely promoted on PRSA’s social media. Fraud?

While gaslighting the PR industry with undeserved accolades to PRSA’s over-compensated exec staff, PRSA conceals its actual CEO job-performance data.

Public comments to the PCAOB discuss PRSA’s audit and conflict of interest issues overseen by PRSA’s CFO (Global Alliance’s Treasurer).

The PR industry’s long-running pricing problem is arguably connected at the hip to its workforce crisis in mental health.

Syracuse’s Newhouse School sent PR students for career advice from 5W’s ethics-embattled Ronn Torossian. Months later, Syracuse arrested him.

UF President Ben Sasse used strong, clear communication + policy that served to prevent campus violence. Other leaders should take note.

Elizabeth West — Mary Beth West’s daughter, who is a rising senior at the University of South Carolina — makes the case for students to attend the 2024 AMEC Global Summit in Bulgaria with one of 200 free online passes.

The 2024 PRO PR Conference in Belgrade, Serbia, brought together public relations global leaders, unified in PR ethics and best practice.

The PR industry can learn a lot from journalism’s own ethics code as well as challenges faced in today’s newsrooms.

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?

With massive bylaw / compliance conflicts, PRSA’s unenforced Code of Ethics hasn’t been updated since Bill Clinton was POTUS.

Philanthropy can be the highest form of communication in coming to terms with sadness, confusion, and even anger, in the face of loss.

The Commission on Public Relations Education (CPRE) reports ethical competency shortfalls of PR graduates / new professionals. But are PR ethics codes partially to blame?

Trust cannot exist without evidence-based ethics. The 2024 European Business Ethics Forum illuminated this fact well in the City of Light.

To advance ethics in strategic communication, it’s critical to reach boardroom and c-suite leaderships well outside the PR industry.

In matters of perceived media bias, have some traditional news sources pushed Americans to the point where they no longer care?

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.

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.

It’s 2024, and not everyone is OK. Let’s rethink what “coping” means and what it requires… including for leaders.

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.

In light of Fareed Zakaria’s brilliant CNN editorial taking U.S. academia to task, you can’t “PR” anti-Semitism. So let’s not say stuff that suggests one can, or, much less, should.

The North American PR agency sector faces a slew of competing priorities — with budgets unequal to client demands.

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.

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!

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.