Stories by Seth Arenstein

Ethics has become an issue for businesses, including PR. The new Global Communications Report from the Center for PR at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism finds PR pros and students certainly are concerned with ethics and the public’s perception of PR’s ethics. The respondents are less clear about what to do about it.

Marketers and communicators admit they don’t always know if their messages are reaching the intended audiences. Yet most believe those messages are relevant when they make it to the target audience. Uh, maybe not, according to a new Adobe survey.

Created early in March, global communications agency Burson Cohn & Wolfe (BCW) unveiled its Asia-Pacific leaders as we went to press. Matt Stafford, president, Asia Pacific, BCW, said the merged firm’s Asia market leaders are in place and “most of our teams have already begun to move into the same office.”

What talents and skills are CMOs looking for when they’re hiring was just one of the areas covered in the extensive quarterly survey of 360 for-profit CMOs produced by Christine Moorman of Duke University in collaboration with Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, Deloitte and the American Marketing Association. The survey had much to say about social media marketing and predicts continued budget growth.

Among the topics PR people talk about most at trade events is how media relations has changed. The typical comment is that newsrooms contain fewer reporters who are busy covering more beats than is humanly (or humanely) possible. Pretty much gone are the days of reporters having time to be able to schedule casual lunches… Continued

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Our weekly roundup of trends, news and personnel moves in PR and communications. This week’s stories include the fallout at Facebook from Cambridge Analytica, LinkedIn adds video tools, Levine and Smiley fight back at #MeToo and Starbucks’ search for a new cup may produce a pot of gold for a lucky engineer.

It sometimes seems that brand communicators and marketers operate in silos within their companies. When it comes to social media, though, they appear to be reading from the same script. In 2017 the Consumer Electronics sector followed the pattern of other industry sectors by posting fewer pieces of social media content, but gaining more consumer engagement.

Several weeks ago we reported Statista’s survey of 10,000 U.S. adults 18-64 provided patterns concerning how the sexes made purchases. The differences between the sexes seemed small. This week we have another survey that shows the sexes indeed are shopping differently, at least when online devices are used. In addition, women are better bargain hunters than men.

Newsrooms seem to be changing, based on what’s discussed during PR conferences. Practically speaking, how are they are changing and at what pace? Those were some of the questions researchers from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University wondered about as they began studying the composition of NYC-area newsrooms.

A survey of some 2,000 Americans taken last week as the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach story was ebbing reveals few surprises. The Reuters / IPSOS survey, however, emphasizes one aspect of the future for Facebook: trust in the company has been battered.