PR is what PR does – a question of ethics
Posted by Heather Yaxley on July 25, 2011 · 7 Comments
Not surprisingly there’s been a great deal of discussion of ethics in relation to the News Corp phone-hacking scandal. Although journalism and corporate governance are facing the real ethical questions, public relations has been brought into the mix by many commentators. Indeed, the Vancouver Sun attributes any ethical lapses in journalism to the practice of [...]
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World’s leaders in PR congregate in Stockholm
Posted by admin on June 29, 2010 · 3 Comments
Marc Whitaker’s breathtaking chorus opening -fully embedded in the Forum’s context and contents; Sven Hamrefor’s intellectually challenging description of value networks; Mervin King’s key note on organizational governance and stakeholder relationships; FERPI’s six faced presentation of the Accords implementation process taking off in Italy in September; Anne Gregory and Ronel Rensburg’s engaging and courageous session on public relations’ value to organizational governance and management, and Karl Schwab’s lucid description of the coming phases of societal discontinuity and of the World Economic Forum’s vision of togetherness through a global multistakeholder platform, will remain in my mind as the more striking achievements of the Stockholm Forum.
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Tom Murphy, Microsoft’s director of corporate communications, corporate citizenship & community affairs
Posted by Judy Gombita on June 2, 2010 · 2 Comments
Contrary to claims, Irish luck has little to do with Tom Murphy’s successful career path in public relations.
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OOPS! Gordon Brown’s recent debacle leads public relators to think this one out, with some care….
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on April 30, 2010 · 5 Comments
If a subject to be trusted is ‘one who does what he says….walk the talk and, when useful, talk the walk…’ then we must discipline ourselves to think, speak privately and publicly as if our thoughts and words were to appear on the front page of the New York Times.
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Why Every Communicator Should Agonize about France’s “Game of Death”
Posted by Kristen E. Sukalac on March 18, 2010 · 1 Comment
The power of the media and the ethics of communication are recurring themes for PR professionals and other communcators. Can an authoritative media voice push anyone to cross ethical lines they think are non-negociable?
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“Intel inside&”? Reinventing our profession … before extinction?
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on March 13, 2010 · 1 Comment
In a nutshell: the world gets more complicated, communication as a dialogue function is increasingly demanding, all stakeholders claim a legitimate interest in a corporate and “pull” what they need, while the communication professional reminds me of the young Dutch boy trying to halt the water bursting through the dam by putting his little fingers in the cracks.
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Social Media go Mainstream? Euprera spring symposium in Gent (Belgium)
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on March 6, 2010 · 5 Comments
The most stimulating came from Betteke Van Rule: never has public relations been more public! she said from the floor. Which led me to think that, yes!, public relations is definitely about relationships with publics, as many of us have always claimed.
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And now, let’s work for the Stockholm Accords and the future of our profession!
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on February 12, 2010 · 4 Comments
The communicative organization acts on the insights that relationships have real value, that reputation is shaped through relationships, and that the organization’s own values must be lived in constant dialogue within as well as with its customers, partners and other stakeholders.
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Arresting consequences of life with the Thought Police
Posted by Catherine Arrow on January 19, 2010 · 4 Comments
The story concerning the man who joked on Twitter and subsequently found himself under arrest caught my eye yesterday, particularly after the story a couple of months ago involving the US police officer who ordered a showbiz agent to send a tweet.
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The Communication Initiative and Haiti: how we, public relators, can hope to add real value
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on January 16, 2010 · 1 Comment
My good friend Warren Feek, from the Communication Initiative, has sent the following message…very relevant in general, but even more specifically for our professional community. Please read and, where possible, participate. Thank you.
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