Candace Hamana, the owner of Badger PR and the founder of The Indigenous Peoples Public Relations Association discusses a number of important ethics issues, including:
1) What to do when your employer doesn’t let you act in true faith
2) How to make land acknowledgements more than a performative action
3) The importance of cultural contexts
Scott Brooks, a public relations specialist for the TVA shares several ethics insights, including:
1) Your client is accused of price gauging, now what?
2) How to keep truth at the forefront
3) How to ethically deal with advocacy
Sandy Young, the vice president of J. Walcher Communications, discusses a number of important ethics issues, including:
1) What to do ethically when a reporter wants to showcase a vulnerable person
2) How to handle PR with asylum seekers
3) How to help people understand “No” is an option
4) The ethics of how we are covering Kanye West
5) Why we need to update disclosure rules
This week on EthicalVoices, Filomena Fanelli, CEO of Impact PR & Communications discusses a number of important ethical issues, including:
1) Why we need to trust but verify
2) How to make your employees understand and live your values
3) Ethics and predatory lending
Rebekah Iliff, a writer, humorist, and the founder of WriteVest, a writers’ collective focused on developing thoughtful, creative invoice, and voice driven content for brands discusses:
1) A shotgun isn’t the answer. What to do when your competitor copies your language and claims
2) Why businesses need to stick to their purpose and avoid wokewashing
3) Fighting vanity metrics
This week, Amy Coward, APR, Fellow PRSA, the President of AC Public Relations, discusses a number of ethics issues, including:
1) How to respond ethically when someone with an agenda attacks you
2) Effective ways to approach your boss to tell them they are acting unethically
3) Why you need to remember – what you allow, you condone
Dr. Holly Overton, Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina and a senior research fellow with the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication discusses:
1) What to do when you are on a toxic team at work
2) The changing landscape of business advocacy and what it means to PR
3) The rise of corporate social advocacy
4) What we can learn from the Page Principles
Claims of ballot fraud and lists of Trump supporters for potential retaliation are not the only hot ethical issues of the week.
Since those have received so much attention, I wanted to highlight some other interesting issues.
Neil Foote, the CEO of Foote Communications, and the President of the National Black Public Relations Society, discusses a number of important ethics issues, including:
1) Why identifying an ethics problem is not enough
2) The power of truth, without embellishment, to drive ethical action
3) How to fight misinformation and disinformation
4) Why celebrating success is not enough to drive diversity
Sam Villegas, APR, a Senior Consultant with Raftelis shares insight on:
1) What do you do when you are asked to stonewall on a public health issue?
2) When should you act as a whistle blower?
3) How do you effectively respond to disinformation and fear-based attacks?