Awards: MikeWorldWide Snags Seven Gold Stevies
Wed, Apr. 29, 2026
By Steve Barnes
MikeWorldwide came out on top in the PR category at The 24th Annual American Business Awards... Story Partners and the Washingtonian presented PBS senior correspondent Judy Woodruff with The Hall of Fame Award at the 13th Annual Washington Women in Journalism Awards... The LAGRANT Foundation, in celebration of its 28th anniversary, is awarding 19 scholarships to students nationwide for its Healthcare Marketing and Communications Scholarship Program.
DGA Group is holding a virtual executive briefing on the evolving conflict in the Gulf and the implications it has for global business. The briefing is on Wed., April 1, at 9:30 a.m... Kana, an AI-native marketing platform, forms a strategic partnership with martech and data consultancy Transparent Partners... Capitol Communicator, which provides marketing and communicators news to readers in the DC area, and technology news platform Potomac Tech Wire are co-producing the Mid-Atlantic MarCom Summit, which will take place at DC’s MLK Library Conference Center in Penn Quarter on Wednesday, October 14.
Helga Ying, who is in charge of International AIDS Society’s offices in San Francisco and Oakland, is moving to Edelman as global and US chair of Purpose. 
Emmanuel Tchividijian, who was senior VP/chief ethics officer at Ruder Finn in a 20-year stint, has established 
Every profession needs codes of conduct to help ensure the credible performance of its members. The public relations profession has several codes aimed at building and sustaining positive behavior but none of them addresses how practitioners must write for PR and related business purposes. 
Workplace diversity Issues, ranging from race to gender, have long been high profile threats to the brand. Ageism has been the exception - until now. 
There's a battle for truth, in which people no longer share common facts and are unable to have a rational debate, Richard Edelman said during his speech at USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism on April 12. 
A Baylor University study found that Millennial PR practitioners were unlikely to speak up when an ethical concern arises, while senior PR pros rely on “rational approaches” when it comes to ethics problems. 
The Arthur W. Page Center is honoring Bill George, senior fellow, Harvard Business School and former CEO of Medtronic; John Onoda, consultant for Gagen MacDonald, and posthumously PBS NewsHour host Gwen Ifill.
For the sake of the reeling Trump Organization, Donald Trump’s presidency can’t end soon enough. It needs the boss back in the corporate saddle. 
Interpublic Group plans mandatory online sexual harassment course for its more than 50,000 employees. 
ICCO, 2,500 PR firms in 55 countries, voted the “Helsinki Declaration,” a pompous document urging ethical behavior of members. Ignored is the rude, unhelpful and not available behavior of many PR people. 
Bell Pottinger appealed the ruling by Britain's ethics watchdog that its controversial campaign that stirred up racial tensions in South Africa violated its PR code of conduct.
The belief in the efficacy of "spin" and "spin doctors" is so embedded in the U.S. culture that it cannot easily be dislodged, says 
Today is the 32nd anniversary of the seven Tylenol murders, a crime buried in a whirlwind of lies that made a hero out of the company that bore heavy responsibility for the murders -- Johnson & Johnson. 
Johnson & Johnson's handling of the Tylenol murders of 1982 and 1986, called a "shining example" of ethical behavior at a 
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"The PR person doesn't have the final say" but can only "fight" and "make their voice heard," Ruder Finn's Michael Schubert told the "PR Ethics Trial" of PRSA/New York Sept. 8.
