Ethical Voices Podcast: Real Ethics Stories from Real PR Pro‪s‬ Mark McClennan, APR, Fellow PRSA

Thomas Bennett III, discusses:

1) What to do when you are stuck in a toxic work culture

2) Why we need more honesty and transparency

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

Cedric F. Brown, APR, an independent consultant who uses digital strategy to produce equitable outcomes, discusses:

1) What to do when you see racist behavior at work

2) Why hiring diverse junior talent isn’t enough

3) Why we can’t just look forward

Perry Headrick, the founder of Crackle PR, discusses a number of important ethical issues including:

1)What should you do when you don’t believe in your client?


2) Why we need to fight sensationalism


3) The need for greater diversity in public relations

Eric Berman, an innovative results-focused communications director discusses a number of important issues, including:

1) What should you do when you are asked to promote vaporware?

2) How can you practice ethical measurement?

3) Why you should always look at both sides of the data

Adam Blacker, the Vice President of Insights and Alliances at Apptopia, discusses a number of important data ethics issues for public relations professionals, including:

1) When to ethically pass on a media opportunity

2) Why you need to think of the long game when it comes to data

3) How to decide if you have enough data for an accurate pitch

4) The ethics of data collection