Ethics Resources for PR Practitioners

Online Resources

• PR Ethics Wiki
• PR History Wiki
• Aristotle’s Ethics
• Rights
• Relativism
• Divine Command theory
• Utilitarianism/Consequentialism
• Kant
• Virtue Ethics
• Gilligan versus Kohlberg et al.
• Resources on Ethical Decision-Making
• Ethics Codes: News Organizations
• A Framework for Thinking Ethically
• Ryerson’s resources for ethical decision-making
• Jürgen Habermas
• Ethical Theory, part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QScIJnWQxE

• Ethical Theory, part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOlinNkPR5Q&feature=relmfu
• Ethics – The Challenge of Relativism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52siRDz1HRY&feature=relmfu
• Jacob Groshek and Michael Conway. 2014. The effectiveness of the pervasive method in ethics pedagogy: A longitudinal study of journalism and mass communication students. Journalism. 14, 330-347. [full text pdf available]. DOI: 10.1177/1464884912454503 http://jou.sagepub.com/content/14/3/330
• Ethics in Public Relations Teaching Modules. The Arthur Page Center. http://comm.psu.edu/page-center/resources/teaching-modules/ethics-in-public-relations

 

Downloadable Resource List

The following document contains more resources that including books and articles in addition to the online resources. Please feel free to download and use as you wish.

Ethics Resources for PR Practitioners