Ethics

Ethical gray areas stretch beyond Chinese media

Steve Barrett April 06, 2012

Last week I talked about the African PR market, how it was at a stage where China was 30 years ago, and how it was set to become the next great growth area for communications.

Overseas factory abuses are a PR nightmare for US companies

Richard Nicolazzo, Nicolazzo & Associates March 02, 2012

Hasn't the time finally come for US corporations to clean up their acts when it comes to overseas supply chain abuses?

Ethical missteps of a few are a concern for the entire industry

February 01, 2012

Ethics and PR is a subject that crops up again and again, especially when crises emerge that hit the headlines in the national press and the industry engages in another period of hand-wringing.

Google succumbs to 'evil' tendency

Frank Washkuch February 01, 2012

Google's self-prescribed motto is "don't be evil," which puts more pressure on it to follow the rules.

Negative ads the norm, but not necessary

Emmanuel Tchividjian, Ruder Finn January 30, 2012

With the presidential election process in full swing, the public is subject to a great number of negative ad campaigns.

Fear, ethics, legal, and Wikipedia

David King, Wikipedia Ethics LLC January 10, 2012

There are plenty of reasons to fear Wikipedia.

How PR pros can make Wikipedia better

Tom Biro, Allison & Partners January 06, 2012

Earlier this week, Phil Gomes of Edelman took to his blog with an "open letter" to Jimmy Wales regarding how communicators and those involved with the development and editing of Wikipedia need to get along.

Lowdown: Ethical behavior

November 01, 2011

On September 28, the Ethisphere Institute rang the New York Stock Exchange's opening bell with some NYSE-listed World's Most Ethical Companies.

Burson stands by Facebook campaign executives

Steve Barrett May 12, 2011

NEW YORK: Burson-Marsteller is sticking by the individuals involved in the botched Facebook anti-Google campaign, instigating extra training, and reinforcing existing ethics policies.

The Mets strike out in crisis communications

Donna McSorley March 04, 2011

During the fourth quarter of 2008, it often felt as if the world (or at least the financial world), was ending.

PRSA updates guidelines on ethical use of interns

Lindsey Siegriest February 10, 2011

NEW YORK: The Public Relations Society of America Board of Ethics and Professional Standards released updated guidelines on the ethical use of PR and communications interns.

PR image still improving after ethics issues

Jaimy Lee December 03, 2010

Several instances of questionable PR and public affairs practices became public this week, reflecting the industry's somewhat shaky definition of ethical PR.

Harvard addresses conflicts of interest

Jaimy Lee July 22, 2010

Harvard Medical School adopted a new conflict-of-interest policy, noting that professors can no longer accept gifts, travel, and meals, as well as industry money to speak on behalf of drug and device companies.

Physician group addresses ethics

Jaimy Lee April 22, 2010

A physician group said that it had developed a new ethics code, to reduce the influence that pharmaceutical and medical device companies have over physicians and patients.

SEO tactic buries bad news, raises ethical questions

Jay Jaffe February 03, 2010

A question I am being asked more frequently is "Is there a way to make an unflattering Internet mention of you or your firm disappear?"

Will the updated FTC rules change the way you work with bloggers?

December 01, 2009

Access Communications' Susan Butenhoff and MWW's Joe Becker enter debate.

Industry reacts to accusations that agency 'gamed' App Store

Kimberly Maul August 24, 2009

TWAIN HARTE, CA: Reverb Communications, which works with game companies like Harmonix and Publisher X, was accused of promoting its clients' products with planted positive reviews in Apple's App Store.

WOMMA's ethics code gets an update

Kimberly Maul August 17, 2009

The Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA), its Member Ethics Advisory Panel, and its board of directors have refined the organization's Code...

Twittergate, part 2

Aarti Shah July 17, 2009

TechCrunch released more info about Twitter from documents that "landed in its inbox" after a hacker obtained them. The latest, which Michael Arrington says will...

Dictator-friendly lobbyists, part 2 (?)

Ted McKenna July 16, 2008

Harper’s Washington editor Ken Silverstein on his blog is following the Sunday Times’ recent undercover "journalism sting" of a UK lobbyist interested in representing a...