Ethical Voices Podcast: Real Ethics Stories from Real PR Pros

Dec 16, 2019

Michelle Egan, the chief communications officer of the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company discusses a number of key ethical issues including:
• Who owns the work you create at a company? And what do you do when a former co-worker asks for it?
• What to do when your company’s equipment causes the death a Middle...

Dec 9, 2019

Melanie Ensign the head of security, privacy, and engineering communications for Uber discusses:

1) Why the best PR pros focus on stopping fires before they begin, rather than responding to a crisis

2) The ethical and cognitive challenges of marketing with FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt)

3) Why SCUBA diving is a great...

Dec 2, 2019

Loring Barnes, APR, Fellow, PRSA, an independent practitioner and Chair of her town’s Selectboard, discusses a number of key ethical issues including:

• Tough ethical decisions during product recalls
• How communicators should approach ethical issues around cannabis
• The quickest path to redemption after making an ethical...

Nov 18, 2019

Tim O'Brien, the founder of O'Brien Communications and host of the Shaping Opinion podcast, discusses a number of key public relations and communication ethics challenges, including:

• Putting your job on the line to do the right thing
• The danger of relative and situational ethics
• The ethical challenges...

Nov 11, 2019

Marisa Vallbona, the founder and president of CIM, Inc PR and co-founder of the PR Consultants Group, discusses: Marisa Vallbona, the founder and president of CIM, Inc PR and co-founder of the PR Consultants Group, discusses: 

• Going beyond “that’s unethical” to understand the issues and better guide those you are...