Are the PRSA Foundation’s Race-Based Scholarships Unconstitutional?
The PRSA Foundation faces potential legal and PR problems with the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision on race-based academic preferences.
Mary Beth West
Tech-Hub Snub: Biden’s Tennessee Pass Raises Qs of Awards Methodology
Were taxpayer-funded Biden Administration Tech Hub awards based on pure proposal merit... or a Decision '24 strategy?
What a Difference a Year Makes in Blount Memorial Land
"It’s been 13 months since I first called publicly for more than zero women to serve on my community’s hospital board." - @marybethwest
PRSA-NY to Jewish Community: #SorryNotSorry, We’re No Longer Sorry
In a self-made PR crisis of moral reversal, PRSA New York apologizes with an anti-Israel statement days after its pro-Israel statement.
World Mental Health Day 2023 (10 Oct) Deserves Urgent PR Industry Attention
October 10, 2023 will mark World Mental Health Day, and if there is any industry more ripe for taking notice and – more importantly – taking action toward better outcomes, it’s the public relations (PR) sector. Two years ago, executive…
New PR Ethics Code Research Reveals Rampantly Outdated & Undated Codes
If a public relations (PR) ethics code hasn’t been meaningfully updated since before the dawn of social media and is widely locked in a myopic, media-relations-centric time-warp, then it’s missing massive chunks of essential treatment of contemporary issues.
PRSA Assembly Preview: PR Society Finances Get Curious-er and Curious-er
Amid millions in financial losses for years, PRSA National Board leadership and executive staff have not complied with New York State Not-for-Profit Corporation Law on disclosures to Assembly delegates.
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..."
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…