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Www.sciencedirect.com.dbgw.lis.curtin.edu.au/science. ScienceDirect.com - Public Relations Review - Typology and dimensionality of litigation public relations strategies: The Hewlett-Packard board pretexting scandal case. Public Relations Review - Public relations ethics and communitarianism : A preliminary investigation. Toward a Professional Responsibility Theory of Public Relations Ethics - Journal of Mass Media Ethics - Volume 16, Issue 2-3. 2Day FM prank DJs face social media fallout. A FACEBOOK page has been set up condemning the 2Day FM presenters who prank-called a London hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was being treated.

2Day FM prank DJs face social media fallout

The nurse who took the call, Jacinta Saldanha, 46, died on Friday and media reports suggested she committed suicide. A Facebook page entitled: "RIP Jacinta Saldanha. Shame upon those stupid Australian DJs" was launched at 3am (AEDT) today, with dozens of people commenting on the tragedy. Some condemned 2Day FM presenters Mel Greig and Michael Christian who made the on-air telephone call. They pretended to be the Queen and Prince Charles to gain information about Catherine's treatment for acute morning sickness.

"People need to stop and think of outcomes from what they do -- what might seem like a joke to you, can make someone else feel low," a nurse wrote on the Facebook page. But others urged the public not to engage in a witch hunt. "How were they (Greig and Christian) to predict someone...would react so badly? " Blood money or right move? PR experts debate 2Day FM's donation pledge. Public relations experts have cautiously commended Southern Cross Austereo’s decision to indirectly donate funds to the family of Jacintha Saldanha, but believe the move is too little too late.

Blood money or right move? PR experts debate 2Day FM's donation pledge

The radio network at the centre of the royal prank call scandal today announced it would return all advertising to embattled station, 2Day FM, tomorrow after a five day self-imposed suspension. It also pledged to donate all of 2Day FM’s advertising profits from Thursday until the end of the year to a charity which will help the family of nurse Saldanha (pictured) – a guaranteed minimum of $500,000. Simon Lloyd, head of consulting at AccessPR, told B&T while payment would not bring absolution, it was a step in the right direction. “Saying you’re going to donate money should never be regarded as an easy way to fix a crisis like this.

Nevertheless I think it is a very good move by Austereo. “From a PR standpoint I don’t have any issue with them resuming advertising. 2DayFM: PR experts urge SCA to bring presenters out of hiding. Australia’s public relations community is urging Southern Cross Austereo to allow 2DayFM presenters Mel Greig and Christian Michael to speak out about their prank call at the centre of the suicide of British nurse, Jacintha Saldanha.

2DayFM: PR experts urge SCA to bring presenters out of hiding

Greig and Michael called the King Edward VII hospital last Tuesday posing as the Queen and her corgie, asking the nurse on call intimate details about the Duchess of Cambridge’s medical condition. The call was subsequently broadcast on air. Saldanha had been manning the hospital switchboard and transferred the call through to Kate Middleton’s ward. Both presenters have been in hiding since the news of Saldanha’s death, their show suspended and their Twitter accounts deleted. 2Day FM suspends all advertising. King Edward VII hospital chief executive John Lofthouse, right, and the hospital's chairman, Simon Glenarthur, address the media in London.

2Day FM suspends all advertising

Photo: AFP RADIO network Austereo has suspended all advertising on 2Day FM in response to advertiser boycotts following the suspected suicide of a British nurse caught up in the royal prank call scandal. ACMA will be engaging with the licensee, Today FM Sydney, around the facts and issues surrounding the prank call. A spokeswoman for Austereo, Sandy Kaye, confirmed to Fairfax Media via SMS this afternoon: "We have pulled advertising on 2Day FM indefinitely. " Earlier on Saturday the station had already lost advertiser support from Telstra and Coles. Advertisement Other large companies, including Woolworths and Optus, were reportedly considering withdrawing their ads when the station made the decision to suspend advertising of its own accord. Asked if the response was due fears of an avalanche of advertiser boycotts, Ms Kaye said: “I guess it probably is.

Sydney DJs criticized over nurse's death. DNA. Key evidence in the death of Indian-origin nurse Jacintha Saldanha has been handed over to the legal team representing the Australian radio station behind the hoax call that apparently lead to her suicide.

DNA

Saldanha, 46, had been found hanging days after the call from 2Day FM DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian to a UK hospital treating Kate Middleton. An inquest into her death opened last week at Westminster Coroner's Court where Australia's Southern Cross Media Group, which owns the radio station, was allowed a position on the legal bench when the official inquest proceedings begin on May 2. Family of nurse Jacintha Saldanha pin hopes on inquest.

Austereo and hospital in dispute at Jacintha Saldanha hoax inquest. Prank DJs' lawyers receive evidence in case of death of nurse Jacintha Saldanha. Royal prank: Invasive Aussie radio hosts Mel Greig and Michael Christian.

Prank DJs' lawyers receive evidence in case of death of nurse Jacintha Saldanha

Jacintha Saldanha's tragic reaction to a prank call. Saldanha's husband, Benedict Barboza (centre), with his son Junal, 16, and daughter Lisha, 14, after the memorial service at Westminster Cathedral.

Jacintha Saldanha's tragic reaction to a prank call

Source: AP Jacintha Saldanha with her children Junal and Lisha. ScienceDirect - Search Results: ALL(public relation ethics) ScienceDirect.com - Public Relations Review - Saints and sinners: Competing identities in public relations ethics. Death of Jacintha Saldanha. Jacintha Saldanha was a nurse who worked at King Edward VII's Hospital Sister Agnes in London, United Kingdom.

Death of Jacintha Saldanha

She was found dead by apparent suicide, three days after receiving a hoax call.