Renea Morris, APR, Fellow PRSA, the Vice Chancellor for Marketing and Communications at the University of Denver, discusses a number of important PR ethics issues including:

1) What to do when you are uneasy with your company's growth strategy?

2) Why organizations should worry less about filtering people's comments on social channels and trust the people doing the work?

3) Where can Higher Ed improve?

Kena Lewis APR, Fellow PRSA, the Senior Director of Public Affairs and Media Relations at Orlando Health. discusses several important ethics issues, including:

1) What to do ethically when your boss is the problem

2) The ethical challenges of online identity

3) The most important ethics priority for healthcare communicators

4) How do you balance safeguarding confidences with transparency and honesty?

For Ethics Month, I wanted to look at new topics and geographies. Joining me this week is Alex Dance, the Managing Director of ERA Communications in Cambodia.

He discusses several important ethics issues, including:

1) What should you do when clients are even tangentially affiliated with a coup?

2) The state of misinformation in Cambodia

3) The impact of influencers on Cambodians

4) Ethical challenges with clickbait

Jamie Floer, APR, CPRC, Fellow PRSA, the Communications Manager for the Toho Water Authority, discusses a number of ethics issues, including:

1) How to successfully advocate for transparency

2) How to protect your company's reputation when other similar brands are having ethics failures

3) Why we need to keep ethics front and center

Joining me in this week's episode is Greg Bailey, APR, Fellow PRSA, the founder of Finley + Bailey Strategic Communication. He discusses a number of important public relations ethics issues including:

1) What to do when a client asks you to hide their identity as part of a coalition

2) Why we need top to turn the mirror on ourselves

3) The growing challenge of malformation

4) How to make sure your employees understand how you value ethics

Elizabeth Edwards, the founder of Volume PR and the Engagement Science Lab, discusses a number of important issues, including:

1) The ethical challenges of weaponized communication

2) Avoiding thought-terminating cliches

3) What is the one tool or word, PR pros should retire

4) Why we need to think of meaning, not just tactics

This week Paula Pedene is being inducted into the Defense Information School Hall of Fame. Every PR pro should listen to her interview from 2018 and then buy her book: A Sacred Duty

Ethical Voices Interview #1 - Paula Pedene, APR, Fellow PRSA

In this episode we speak with Paula Pedene, one of the key whistleblowers in the VA scandal about the ethical issues she faced and advice for public relations professionals

Paula is a service disabled veteran, a PR agency owner and was PRSA PR Professional of the year in 2015. She is a guidepost against which many PR pros should measure their ethical standards.

This interview highlights:

1) The ethical issues she faced at the VA

2) Her advice for whistleblowers and those serving as ethical guardians for their organizations

3) The best ethics advice she ever recevied

4) New ethics issues of concern

This week on Ethical Voices, Ken Kerrigan, a Vice President at Infinite Global, discusses a number of important ethics issues, including:

1) Too many beers – Ethics and client conflicts

2) Can corporations really be ethical media enterprises?

3) The death of truth and the need for regulation

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

Cathy Morley Foster, the principal at Morley Foster Consulting, discusses a number of important ethics issues, including:

1) How to effectively counsel those that want to make unethical decisions

2) The importance of expertise and common sense