I bet $1,000 to a journalism charity that Don Lemon wasn’t even a member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). Stay tuned!

PRSA policies “strictly” require PRSA “must” be “Nonpartisan” — but ChatGPT cites PRSA’s partisan violations of its own policies and code.

The Biden DOJ left Omnicom’s name out of its 2023 Durham Report on Hillary Clinton’s Russia-collusion hijinks. Now we know why.

For years, PRSA’s frauds + ties to deep-pocketed Democrat and Russian Federation PR players remained heavily veiled. That ends today.

Our community of PR colleagues lost Francis Ingham 33 months ago. Sadly, though, Francis felt he lost our community, well before then.

We may still be plugging along in the Year of the Wood Snake in the Chinese Zodiac, but as far at the PR industry goes, it seems we’re stuck in the Era of Flying Monkeys.

God blesses our lives with people, in ways and at times that can be under-appreciated until, suddenly, one day, it’s not.

Secret PRSA memos and meetings admitting to “unbecoming” and “inappropriate behaviors” may drive the last nail in PRSA’s credibility coffin.

As “Protestors for Hire” are unethically staged to march in the streets of Washington, D.C., PRSA’s “Ethics Board” stays reliably tight-lipped.

A male U of TN-Knoxville PR prof will present a “poster board session” entitled “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” at PRSA ICON.

The University of Tennessee-Knoxville has a massive “Say / Do” disconnect (gaping hole) in its DEI “compliance” story.

Many PR leaders report that “organizational gaslighting” is on the rise, violating PR ethics codes while stoking disinformation.

Recent statements (and non-statements) underscore selective DEI favoritism and lack of cohesive voice when it comes to antisemitism.

Over recent years, disturbing trends have vastly shifted many citizens’ original goodwill toward DEI as a good-faith movement.

Ketchum’s (Omnicom’s) troubling transatlantic influence in PR trade groups raises dire ethics concerns, as PRCA-UK ponders its “Lobbying” code.

Years of systemic gaslighting take a toll on this American’s otherwise massive capacity for sympathy / empathy.

Mary Beth West: “When it comes to politics and its current negative impact on PR, Mr. Holmes and I appear to agree on practically nothing.”

In a new batch of ethics violations, PRSA recruits a partisan front group as PRSSA’s “client” for the Bateman Case Study Competition.

Late author Stephen Covey famously wrote, “You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!” Tell that to PRSA… and now, to the NY Attorney General, too.

When choosing a style of public critique about a family member’s politics, be a Shriver, not a Kennedy.

The ACEJMC university accreditation body for journalism, advertising, and PR is so compromised that a U.S. Department of Justice investigation is overdue to fix it.

Cannes Lions 2025 will take place June 16-20. For PR pros looking to build their creativity muscle at this year’s festival, planning ahead is key.

As New Year ’25 begins, the PR industry must take stock of “Trump White House / Part Deux” — amid the industry’s big partisanship problem.

The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) quietly whispers news that the ethics-embattled PR association faces new turnover in its CEO position.

Ever heard of the fascist Trump Accountability Project? Of course you haven’t.

At ECI’s #IMPACT2024 Conference, a PR ethics session will explore compliance implications of documented ethics gaps in PR education.

With PRSA’s International Conference and Assembly only days away, PRSA’s longtime legal counsel, Venable LLP, faces the Doug Emhoff PR crisis.

While ethics in public relations is and should be, without question, a year-round priority and endeavor for all PR industry leaders, agencies, and practitioners, we traditionally set the spotlight on ethics in the month of September. Please join The #PRethicsCommunity on the LinkedIn platform, which – as newly launched only in recent weeks – is…

Has the United Kingdom launched a tragic descent down a free-speech-suppression slippery slope, from which freedom-loving UK citizens may never recover? If elected to the White House, would the Kamala Harris Administration seek to adopt similar “internet troll” incarceration powers in the US as Labour’s UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer now wields, with seeming impunity?…

The global PR trade press has spoken. Or at least one of them has. PR trade publication PRovoke Media – living up to its name – has awarded the booby prize to U.S. President Joe Biden as the “worst communicator among the world’s leaders,” beating out prior perennial favorite, Vladimir Putin. Let that sink in.…

Strategic communicators who work in public relations — as well as other professionals, academicians, and students who seek to learn more about ethical PR — can join The #PRethics Community on the LinkedIn professional social media platform. The #PRethics Community is a gathering place for public relations (PR) and communication professionals, leaders, academicians / researchers,…

In December 2021, PRSA only had 15,652 regular members, not “more than 30,000 members” as falsely promoted on PRSA’s social media. Fraud?

While gaslighting the PR industry with undeserved accolades to PRSA’s over-compensated exec staff, PRSA conceals its actual CEO job-performance data.

Public comments to the PCAOB discuss PRSA’s audit and conflict of interest issues overseen by PRSA’s CFO (Global Alliance’s Treasurer).

The PR industry’s long-running pricing problem is arguably connected at the hip to its workforce crisis in mental health.

Syracuse’s Newhouse School sent PR students for career advice from 5W’s ethics-embattled Ronn Torossian. Months later, Syracuse arrested him.

UF President Ben Sasse used strong, clear communication + policy that served to prevent campus violence. Other leaders should take note.

Elizabeth West — Mary Beth West’s daughter, who is a rising senior at the University of South Carolina — makes the case for students to attend the 2024 AMEC Global Summit in Bulgaria with one of 200 free online passes.

The 2024 PRO PR Conference in Belgrade, Serbia, brought together public relations global leaders, unified in PR ethics and best practice.

The PR industry can learn a lot from journalism’s own ethics code as well as challenges faced in today’s newsrooms.