CPRE Reports Ethical Competency Shortfalls for PR Grads / New Pros

The Commission on Public Relations Education (CPRE) reports ethical competency shortfalls of PR graduates / new professionals. But are PR ethics codes partially to blame?
The Commission on Public Relations Education (CPRE) reports ethical competency shortfalls of PR graduates / new professionals. But are PR ethics codes partially to blame?
Trust cannot exist without evidence-based ethics. The 2024 European Business Ethics Forum illuminated this fact well in the City of Light.
To advance ethics in strategic communication, it's critical to reach boardroom and c-suite leaderships well outside the PR industry.
For more than a decade, PRSA claimed to have a legitimate "Memorandum of Understanding" (MOU) with the U.S. Dept. of Defense. They were lying.
In 2016, PRSA’s Chairman declared the words “I hate math!” as PR anathema. Now, in 2024, PRSA's new $5 million balance sheet discrepancy underscores its corruption.
With a $300,000 loss at the Diversity Action Alliance, PRSA members deserve to know what their own Foundation "charity" is really doing on DEI.
In light of Fareed Zakaria's brilliant CNN editorial taking U.S. academia to task, you can't "PR" anti-Semitism. So let's not say stuff that suggests one can, or, much less, should.
The North American PR agency sector faces a slew of competing priorities -- with budgets unequal to client demands.
It should never be this difficult or expensive to dismiss an utterly toxic individual who’s arguably driving a desperately needed community healthcare resource into the ground.
"It’s been 13 months since I first called publicly for more than zero women to serve on my community’s hospital board." - @marybethwest