PR, the Media and Democracy; an interview with Prof. Anne Gregory

Here it is, my first Podcast !

I am honored that my first podcast interview is with Anne Gregory, Professor at the Leeds Metropolitan University and Director of the Center for Public Relations Studies.

You can download the podcast here (MP3 - 22,8 MB)

Or you can listen to it online at Our Media.org

I met Prof. Gregory (virtually) more than 2 years ago when posting my thoughts on Anti-Spin.com, a website dedicated to PR, media and spin/anti-spin. We did this interview in Antwerp where Prof. Gregory spoke about PR, the Media and Democracy at an event organised by VEPEC, an association for Belgian PR,  Advertising & Marketing Practicioners.

During the interview we covered the following topics (in chronological order):

• Creating informed consent
• PR needs to look at larger impact on society
• Communicators have a responsibility
• PR leading reconciliation/building bridges
• Online communications & social control
• Building trust
• Fact checking & online media
• Who checks the Bloggers ?
• Multiple sources = better point of views
• PROs should defend Journalists
• The pressure on Journalism/the Media
• Importance of PR education

We could have gone on for about an hour or 5 but Prof. Gregory still had to present to VEPEC's guests so we kept it to these 20 minutes. I hope you enjoy this and please feel free to comment, give feedback.

A big thanks to Anne Gregory for the time she freed up, to Sam Versluys for the audio/technical support and VEPEC for letting me do this interview just before their conference.

You can download the podcast interview here (MP3 - 22,8 MB)

Or you can listen to it online at Our Media.org