Two New Features in this Blog. Enjoy and/or criticise..please!!
You might have noticed on the right hand side of this blog a new ‘special feature’ which, for now, includes two links. This addition also derives from your responses to…
Beyond Truth… Sincerity?
These days, as the World PR Festival in London (June 23-24) comes closer, the public benefit of Public Relations returns once again to the top of our agenda. But could…
Two recent documents for all of us….so avid for data on our profession!
The fifth GAP (generally accepted paractices) gap report from Annenberg School of Communication has just been released, while Ansgarr Zerfass from Leipzig, leading a coalition of ten european universities has…
Following the Hunter-Coach incident: let’s not throw away the baby with the dirty water…
I had learned of the Hunter-Coach incident a few months ago when the always careful and brilliant Jack O’Dywer revealed it on his website, and was shocked by the manipulative…
Finding our essential knowledge
Page Turner, the blog of the Arthur W. Page Society, has published my posting regarding the three kinds of research in our field, and how that relates to the Institute…
How reliable are PR qualifications?
UK media reports of the inherent unreliability of school exam results have drawn criticism for undermining public confidence in qualifications. Can the same observations be made about the veracity of…
election polls are only the tip of an iceberg for an essential review of understanding reality as it unfolds ever so fuzzily…
Once again most polls conducted for the recent Italian elections were wrong. Giuseppe De Rita, a highly intelligent and reputed analyst, sentenced: Italians are born liars. So what else is…
finding a responsible path towards the institutionalization of the public relations function!
From an organizational perspective, the ongoing and accelerating process of institutionalization of the public relations function, besides its many positive aspects (for the organization, for public relators as well as…
Real-Life Ethical Scenarios
Dr. Shannon A. Bowen, Ethics and Public Relations section editor for the Institute’s Essential Knowledge Project, is asking practitioners to share real-life ethical scenarios –
PR job title inflation
I did a little analysis of the job titles of members of the Motor Industry Public Affairs Association (MIPAA) recently and think I might have spotted an interesting trend.