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Sometimes it takes a worldwide crisis to remind you of things you once knew, but maybe have forgotten. Screenwriter Robert McKee once said “True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure – the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character’s essential nature.” But as […]

The Journalist’s Creed is a personal affirmation of journalism ethics written by Walter Williams in 1914. The creed has been published in more than 100 languages, and a bronze plaque of The Journalist’s Creed hangs at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. I remember standing in front of that plaque many years ago in […]

At the recent 92nd Annual Academy Awards a trio of superheroic women (Brie Larson, Gal Gadot and Sigourney Weaver) took the stage to give away one on the night’s prizes. Now, they said something during their banter that I thought was pretty interesting. They said “All women are superheroes!”. The crowd ate it up and thunderous applause ensued. It […]

Public relations professionals see the world a bit differently than most people. We don’t just see news stories, we see how they were pitched, to whom and sort of know how it was all put together to become those stories. As a result, very few of us doing this work believe anything we see, hear, read in […]