Integrated reporting and strategic public relations

Guest post by Benita Steyn

In November 2011, Benita Steyn and Estelle de Beer from South Africa delivered a paper, The Strategic Role of Public Relations in the Process of Integrated Reporting at the Corporate Governance and Strategic Communication Congress in Milan, Italy.
We welcome back contributor alumna, Benita Steyn, who kindly agreed to provide [...]

Who has seen the future of PR?

Guest post by Jean Valin, APR, FCPRS
Who has seen the future of PR?

The Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management (GA) is embarking on an ambitious project to determine to what extent the seven core competencies used by accreditation examiners who confer the “APR“ and “ABC” in 16 organizations around the world are of [...]

CSR Reports? Reporting of irresponsible behaviours; new book by Paolo D’Anselmi

Book review by Toni Muzi Falconi

Disclosure: Paolo D’Anselmi is an old friend of mine. I am grateful to the current leaders of PR Conversations for allowing me to introduce to its many visitors and readers Paolo’s most recent  book—his first in the English language—which reveals a number of unique arguments adding much “food for thought” [...]

PR is what PR does – a question of ethics

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 [...]

Tim Marshall: Time for radical thinking and real PR leadership

Here’s an idea for the public relations and communications management profession to hang its hat on – and to show leadership. Let us be the driving force to set up a Genuine Progress Index (GPI) for the world.

World’s leaders in PR congregate in Stockholm

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.

Why Every Communicator Should Agonize about France’s “Game of Death”

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?

Arresting consequences of life with the Thought Police

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.

The Communication Initiative and Haiti: how we, public relators, can hope to add real value

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.

Message pointer: Demonstrating value

I’m pointing you to the Message from the President, which recently went online on the Canadian Public Relations Society’s website. In his message, Dr. Terrence (Terry) Flynn, APR, FCPRS, outlines an organizational need for public relation

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