What a Difference a Year Makes in Blount Memorial Land
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Tag #PRethics
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New PR Ethics Code Research Reveals Rampantly Outdated & Undated Codes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.
PRSA Assembly Preview: PR Society Finances Get Curious-er and Curious-er
Amid millions in financial losses for years, PRSA National Board leadership and executive staff have not complied with New York State Not-for-Profit Corporation Law on disclosures to Assembly delegates.
The #PRethics of Being Asked to Destroy Evidence
Destroying data at a management team's command can have massive ethics and legal consequences for the unwitting PR practitioner.
In “Ethics” Parlance, When is the Word “Code” an Utter Misnomer?
This #PRethics Month (Sept. 2023), the PR industry is challenged to consider a simple question: When is an ethics “code” not a “code” at all?… But rather, a “list of nice things to consider”? Public relations is a line of…
Is It Just So Terribly Difficult to Follow the Bylaws?
Thinking back some decades ago, my husband – ever the long-suffering college football fan – used to tell the story of exiting his home-team’s massive campus stadium late one rainy night, alongside droves of other angry fans after a particularly…