Articles

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Hired Guns and Moral Torpedoes: Balancing the Competing Moral Duties of the Public Relations Professional (with Kevin Gibson), PRism (2011)
 

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The Ethics of Lobbying: Testing an Ethical Framework for Advocacy in Public Relations, Journal of Mass Media Ethics (2010)

This study evaluates the ethical criteria lobbyists consider in their professional activities using Ruth Edgett’s...

 

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A Plea for PR Ethics Research, Ethical News (2009)
 

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Connections between Lobbying, Public Relations and Advocacy, Public Relations Journal (2009)

The article by Dr. Berg examines the communication and public relations activities lobbyists are involved....

 

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Teaching Ethics with the Help of Hollywood, Ethical News (2009)
 

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Teaching Media Ethics at the Graduate Level, Ethical News (2009)
 

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A Description of Lobbying as Advocacy Public Relations, Proceedings of International Public Relations Research Conference: Roles and Scopes of Public Relations (2007)

This study defines lobbying as advocacy public relations. Data were collected from self-administered surveys of...

 

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In Search of a Corporate Moral Compass, Journal of Mass Media Ethics (2006)
 

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Reconsidering Public Relations’ Infatuation with Dialogue: Why Engagement and Reconciliation Can Be More Ethical Than Symmetry and Reciprocity (with Kevin L. Stoker), Journal of Mass Media Ethics (2006)

Advocates of dialogic communication have promoted two-way symmetrical communication as the most effective and ethical...

 

Contributions to Books

[In Press] The World is a….Network: Social Media and Cause Networks in the Girl Effect Movement (with Sarah Feldner), Public Relations and New Media (2011)
 

[In Press] Lobbying as Advocacy Public Relations and its ‘Unspoken’ Code of Ethics, Interest Groups & Lobbying: Volume One – The United States, and Comparative Studies (2009)