Thank you to everyone who participated in our September 2015 Twitter chat. Specifically, we’d like to thank our co-hosts, Vice President of Advocacy Victoria Lewis (tweeting from @VictoriaKLewis) and Vice President of Public Relations Nolan Miles (tweeting from the @PRSSANational account) for guiding the conversation. Please be on the lookout for next month’s Twitter chat! [View the story “September Twitter […]
Biola University public relations student Collin Callahan sat down with his stepmother Dianne Callahan, area director for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, to talk about ethics and glean some advice for entering the public relations industry.
Thank you to everyone who participated in our September 2014 Twitter Chat, “Ethics and PRSSA.” Specifically, we’d like to thank our co-hosts, Vice President of Advocacy Eric Winkfield and Vice President of Public Relations Ethan Parry (tweeting from the @PRSSANational account) for leading the conversation. Join us on Oct. 7 at 9 p.m. ET for the next PRSSA Twitter Chat: “Maximizing Your […]
As young professionals entering the workforce, we may soon be forced to make the dreaded decision of what to do when a boss asks us to do something unethical. I know it’s easy to say, “This won’t happen to me.” But it might. And if it does, you need to be ready to react appropriately while following your own ethical […]
BuzzFeed’s Viral Politics Editor, Benny Johnson, was fired after BuzzFeed executives discovered over 40 counts of plagiarism on the site, according to a blog on Politico.com. In the late evening on Friday, July 25, BuzzFeed Editor Ben Smith issued an online apology to BuzzFeed readers. “After carefully reviewing more than 500 of Benny’s posts, we have found 41 instances of […]
PRSSA Podcast host Austin Malcolm discusses the importance of getting PRSSA alumni involved in Chapter programming and activity. He also explores the topic of teaching ethics in PRSSA Chapters. This podcast is joined by Regina Flanigan, University of Texas at Austin vice president of Chapter Development. How are you getting your alumni involved? How are you teaching ethics? Austin […]
Thank you to everyone who participated in our second Twitter Chat of the 2013-2014 school year. Specifically, we’d like to thank co-hosts vice president of advocacy Jessica Airey and vice president of public relations, Ben Butler (tweeting from the @PRSSANational account), for leading the conversation. Join us on October 1 at 9 p.m. ET for the next PRSSA Twitter chat: “Growing Your PRSSA/PRSA Relationship” with […]
September has arrived, and that means we’ve entered every public relations professional’s favorite time of year: Ethics Month. Ethics may never steal the show with a flashy demonstration or unexpected development, and ethics doesn’t usually make it into the news unless someone has violated them. However, these unwavering principles set the foundation for the public relations profession. Without them, we […]
Another September has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean ethics should. Just in case you missed it, I’ve rounded up September’s Ethics Month activities. Here is what took place: Much of September focused on applying ethical standards globally. We saw it first in the PRSA International Ethics Twitter chat (you can find the transcript here) where PRSA and PRSSA […]
Ethics are a set of moral principles or a code of conduct that we choose to follow. We all have an ethical framework through which we live our lives; the extent of that ethical framework is what varies one individual from the next. Some of us hold true to more general ethical beliefs, such as the fact that it is […]
