The ninth edition of Media Ethics: Issues and Cases has been updated to reflect the most
pressing ethical issues in media. Featuring 25 new cases on hot topic issues from fake news …

The second edition of this handbook is designed to fulfill three purposes. First, the volume is
intended to chart the progress in thinking about media ethics. What began as a largely …

This qualitative exploratory study applied moral development theory to examine how 35
public relations professionals perceived their on-the-job moral development. Findings …

Although scholarship discussing public relations professionals' roles has been abundant,
ethical dilemmas facing public relations professionals remain implicit in such roles …

This moral psychology study surveys the College of Fellows of the Public Relations Society
of America to examine morally relevant features and motivations. Using the Moral …

Over the past 40 years, scholars and practitioners of public relations have often cast public
relations workers in the role of the public relations-person-as-corporate-conscience …

Moral reasoning among media professionals varies. Historically, advertising professionals
score lower on the Defining Issues Test (DIT) than their media colleagues in journalism and …

This paper examines how ethics of care (also known as care ethics) can be applied to public
relations, drawing insights from a two-stage empirical study. The first stage explores industry …

This article reviews the evolution of public relations from its pre-science period to the present-
day using Thomas Kuhn's theory of scientific development. The review discusses how public …

This study examines whether professional journalists reason differently about moral
problems when primed with their professional identity. This between-subjects experiment …