EP 125: The PR Launch That Cleared The Building

EP 125: The PR Launch That Cleared The Building

August 25, 2026 · 54 min

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Robert Minton-Taylor discusses the lack of accountability in the PR industry regarding major scandals.

A CIPR fellow with nearly six decades in PR says the industry still protects itself from its own scandals. In this episode, Robert Minton-Taylor, a CIPR fellow recognised at the institute's 70th anniversary and a 24-year PR lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, argues that no PR professional has ever been sanctioned for their industry's complicity in Grenfell, the Post Office Horizon scandal, the infected blood scandal, or the NHS maternity scandal. He tells the story of the former intern who...

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