Open letter to CIPR on implications of Leveson's report
The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) should do more to encourage wider debate about the implications of Lord Justice Leveson's recommendations for the great trade of public relations.
PRs shouldn't rush to welcome Leveson
PR professionals need to interrogate the Leveson report in great detail. That's because there's the possibility
Guest post: RDN says Leveson wasn't liberal
By Richard D North:
So far I am with David Cameron and find support in the majority of each of
Energy independence: a misguided pipedream
Obama’s and Romney’s trumpeting of energy-autarchy and energy-efficiency during the election campaign reveals how they lack both the policies to build a better future. The real challenge is not to turn the clock back on the globalisation of oil, but to accelerate the globalisation of gas.
Poor communication is not a crime
Whenever there is an accident as a result of nature's force or man's activities, or from a combination of both, somebody is likely to be held legally liable. It is as if there is no such thing as an accidental accident. Well, shit happens and the blame game often sucks.
Savile and the BBC’s clip-board kings and queens
[This is a guest post by Richard D North.] The most important questions about the BBC and Savile saga are
How to make blackouts a thing of the past
The key to providing for our energy needs is technological development, not sterile rows about energy sources. This essay by Professor James Woudhuysen, Joe Kaplinsky and Paul Seaman was first published on spiked-online
Lonmin's PR credibility gap
I want to address Lonmin's politically correct corporate website, which reads as if it were promoting a mine somewhere in Western Europe rather than in troubled South Africa. And I want to issue a warning against the dangers of moral grandstanding that is all too common in South Africa.
New moral agenda for PR: updated essay
In the late 20th century PR had to manage an increasing number of controversial issues. Firms were invited – forcefully – to address their reputations the way they once addressed profits. This essay interrogates the response of leading academics and examines the historical roots of the problem.
The F-word in the new Cold War
How does a near-European monopolistic vertical supplier (upstream, downstream and in-between) of an expensive fossil fuel from a semi-democratic country
The rumble in the jungle: modern PR's Edwardian birth
The largely forgotten Peruvian Amazonian Rubber Company scandal gave birth to modern corporate governance. It illustrated how public opinion, which abolished slavery in the British empire in 1833, and later rallied against King Leopold in the Congo, was a positive global force.
Essay: Sustainability and WBCSD's myopic Vision 2050
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development's Vision 2050 claims that over the next forty years, corporate environmental efficiency must become a competitive advantage across all industries and regions of the world. How to interrogate this stuff? Sceptically, I suggest.
