Carole Anne Coleman was Beautiful, Inside and Out
"What I found weren’t answers, though… just evidence-upon-evidence that Carole Anne wanted to project goodness and kindness onto the world..."
Mary Beth West
The #PRethics of Being Asked to Destroy Evidence
Destroying data at a management team's command can have massive ethics and legal consequences for the unwitting PR practitioner.
In “Ethics” Parlance, When is the Word “Code” an Utter Misnomer?
This #PRethics Month (Sept. 2023), the PR industry is challenged to consider a simple question: When is an ethics “code” not a “code” at all?… But rather, a “list of nice things to consider”? Public relations is a line of…
Is It Just So Terribly Difficult to Follow the Bylaws?
Thinking back some decades ago, my husband – ever the long-suffering college football fan – used to tell the story of exiting his home-team’s massive campus stadium late one rainy night, alongside droves of other angry fans after a particularly…
September is #PRethics Month
This September during #PRethics Month 2023, I’m proud to introduce a full white paper of global public relations association ethics code analysis, which I commissioned last year through the Institute of Business Ethics in London. The research is the first-of-its-kind…
Welcome to marybethwest.com — 4.0!
For 20 years, I’ve owned the marybethwest.com URL. During my 15 years (2003-2018) as a public relations agency owner, this dot-com served as the online home to my firm in Tennessee… with several iterations. Since selling my agency in 2018,…