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In an age of public conversations, ethical decision making and accurate communications are top of mind for the PR professional. With the public accessing social media for their news and information, the topic of ethics is even more prominent. The major professional associations provide a Code of Ethics to educate and guide PR professionals on the subject. However, with the shifting media landscape and technology advancing rapidly, communications ethics are challenged....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Are ethics keeping up in the age of social media? It's a big question that deserves close attention by PR and social media professionals. 
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You don’t have to dig too far to find criticisms of public relations as involving lying and other less than ethical practices. The normal response from the industry is denial, citation of codes of conduct and finger pointing at isolated ‘others’.
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Five things public companies can learn about corporate governance from the Freeh investigation of Penn State.
"We protect our reputations by doing the right thing, not by hiding our failings. Indeed, even amid discovery of error and wrongdoing, reputations are enhanced by acknowledging, dealing with them immediately and directly, and working to minimize their recurrence." -- Edward Queen, Director of the D. Abbott Turner Program in Ethics and Servant Leadership at Emory University's Center for Ethics in Atlanta
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Ethics: The rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.
This small six-letter word packs a whole lot of meaning behind it, particularly in the PR and journalism world....
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Really loves how this article addresses the idea of ethics in our media driven society. Not only has this become an issue in more recept years because literally EVERYTHING can end up online, but also how we can address. Because conversations have become more and more public, the idea of how that has changed how we view ethics needs to be revisited.
An article that connects two of our future course concepts about ethics and social media.
This article involved a interview with Dr. Shannon Bowen, an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina. She talks about how it is becoming increasingly more important in this age of social media to be conscious about how ethical we as a society need to be regarding posts on social media. It mentions that we need to consider three angles: "responsibility to moral principle, maintaining the dignity and respect of all publics, and proceeding with good intentions."