Listen to this: wish all journalists were so correct in their handling of our profession!!

The canadian professional community is commenting on the first of six hours of canadian broadcasting corporation radio coverage of the relationship between public relations, spin and journalism. Here is the link to the first program. Listen and comment if you wish. I found it very well done, balanced and interesting: http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/spincycles/index.html

Public Relations in Iran! Here is the opinion of Shameem Abdul Jalil, President of the Institute of Public Relations and director of Corporate Communication Public Bank of Malaysia

I had met Shameem in 2004 when she represented her Institute at the World Pr Festival in Trieste. We haven’t seen each other since, but I remember very well her enthusiasm and desire to change. I have just received this article she wrote for the New Straits Times. Take a look and express your point of view..

the impact of compromised decisions create potentially harmful situations for those involved that include: loss of credibility, being labeled as purveyors of deception, engineering misinformed publics, or spinning/framing information simply to suit a clients taste….sound familiar?

Louisa Bargeron, another of my NYU students, dwells in this paper Truth in Public Relations Bargeron.doc on the issue of the ambiguity of public relations. Great reading and learning for all of us….

Public Relations, the Kremlin, international agencies and russian public relations practice. Oxana Trush gives her view…

Oxana Trush, a young russian public relations professional who actively and intensely participated to my NYU class, submitted her final paper oxana’s second part.doc analysing Russia’s current public relations environment and, in the excerpts you may read here, she supplies interesting information on a recent public debate concerning Ketchum’s role in the G8 summit, Tim Bell’s activities in defence of the Litvinenko family ,and a number of issues I had raised in a recent post which had, at the time, not succeeded in...

Doing what comes naturally:using prevailing conceptions of public relations to support global diversity

…..If money ‘talks,’ –writes Amy De Robertis– let the wealth of these younger generations defend communication for diversity, in diversity and with diversity while the pr industry builds its knowledge of global public relations practices that are more effective at engaging diverse publics in excellent communication and enable practitioners to reach cultures that are struggling to retain their identities and provide for their people….