Most if not all B2B editors believe they have their hands full with ethical challenges. However, those woes amount to peanuts when matched against the endless array of issues confronting academic journals. … read more
Has an ethical breach occurred when an editor seeking to build a portfolio discovers that evidence of articles written for a previous employer has vanished? … read more
“Media ethics: Lack of resources, training compromise quality journalism.” Does this sound like a typical headline one might expect to find describing today’s B2B plight? In fact, the observation led off an article describing a recent Media Ethics Day presentation occurring in Pakistan. … read more
Preserving the integrity of publication front covers via an ASBPE ethics code revision was a step long overdue. Field reports mentioned infractions ranging from false covers involving publication logo misuse to tales of new sales managers coaxing editors to clutter covers with commercial plugs. … read more
Question: If asked to list pressing ethical concerns, how high a priority would you assign to social media? Follow-up question: What specific social media practices would fall into the “slipshod” category? … read more
By Stefanie Kure It’s a scenario familiar to those of us involved in the B2B publishing industry: Rising production costs and postage fees combined with plummeting advertising revenue is resulting in the demise of many print publications. Fortunately, the … read more
By Stefanie Kure It’s a scenario familiar to those of us involved in the B2B publishing industry: Rising production costs and postage fees combined with plummeting advertising revenue is resulting in the demise of many print publications. Fortunately, the … read more
By Howard Rauch Last month saw some dubious recognition heaped upon “native advertising.” First a New York Times article appearing in the Business Day section bore this headline: “Storytelling Ads May be Journalism’s New Peril.” And before the … read more
Ann Wylie Writing Workshop Do your team members need to write better copy, faster? Reach more readers? Come up with more creative ideas? Perhaps I can help. I’m a Gold Quill Award-winning communicator whose workshops take me from … read more
The Stephen Barr Award—the prestigious prize administered by the not-for-profit ASBPE Foundation—has lost its godmother. ASBPE’s leadership was shocked by the news that Judith Keller Barr had died suddenly, of a heart attack, on Sept. 24. She had … read more
