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This article examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication and the commitment to CSR in practice, specifically on the topic of employee diversity. A large-scale textual analysis is used to investigate CSR communication and the factors that differentiate news organizations. By integrating the scholarship on CSR communication, journalism, and management, the article furthers the understanding of ways news organizations publicly signal the implementation of diversity practices. In addition, the article proves useful as news organizations seek ways to institutionalize their CSR communications and evaluate their own commitments to diversity initiatives as an organizational priority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communication education relies heavily on experiential learning, but such an approach rarely provides opportunities for students to participate in inter-disciplinary collaborations and build inter-organizational relationships. The current paper describes a simulation, called 'The Trifecta,' in which students in the disciplines of journalism, public relations and video production worked together to produce media content over a six-week period in a fictional municipality. Debriefing research following the simulation showed that students gained not only technical knowledge, but also began to see how to build and maintain effective relationships across disciplines as well as point out ineffective relationships. To this end, 'The Trifecta' stands as an example of how communication education must push toward a third paradigm which crosses into innovative problem solving from students and mentoring from instructors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communication is a response that can mitigate and even restore the damage resulting from organizational crisis. Yet what is often asserted in most of the research is that organizations are in a state of crisis and that they are indeed engaging in crisis communication. Sometimes organizations are in controversy as opposed to crisis. The distinction between controversy and crisis, in turn, has implications for the practice of communication. The current paper takes the opportunity to show the fruitful directions to be taken up based on the differences between crisis and controversy and how these differences impact organizational communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]