“Trust, but verify” is a phrase that was used often by Ronald Reagan. It is more than a little ironic that this is originally a Russian proverb (Doveryai, no proveryai).
Trust is also what links the various topics in episode 13 of our podcast.
From Chinese citizen scores to alleged irregularities in the UK referendum and the
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This post appears courtesy of USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The full report can be found here.
2017 has been defined by a series of unprecedented technological and political shifts, many of which
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At Gagen MacDonald, we’ve long believed that love in business is good business. And that’s why it was wonderful to read about Dr. Rita Linjuan Men’s latest research study,
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Job search site CareerCast ranked public relations as the sixth most stressful job in 2016 (Suleman, 2016). When we, professional communicators, are at the other side of the table, how are we dealing with our own work-life conflict? In this blog post, I discuss the ways in which work environment and professional identification impact
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Ruoyo Sun is the winner of the 2017 Makovsky Best Master Thesis of the Year Award.
Information source can make up a compelling story, depending on how credibl
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Every company is concerned about its reputation — for lots of good reasons. But we don’t talk much about the relationship between a company’s reputation and its success in public affairs. If the public doesn’t trust you, are you more likely to be regulated? If Congress likes you, will it pass favorable laws? If your CEO volun
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This post appears courtesy of the Ogilvy Media Influence Team.
The emergence of “fake news” was thought to make the public less confident
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This post appears courtesy of the IPR Measurement Commission and originally appeared in PR News.
We all know the imperative of measurement. There is the old management adage that “you can’t manage what you don’t measure.” And then there is the loftier Peter
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This post appears courtesy of the IPR Measurement Commission and originally appeared in PR News.
Please assess the state of PR measurement.
PR is still playing analytics catch up with other communications disciplines. While there are leader
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Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset once said, “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.” So, as organizations sit in their Boardrooms and deliberate to come up with the right list of values, how much meaning, importance and identity does the organization ultimately associate with them?
Many experts s
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