PR Executives, Including Edelman CEO Richard Edelman, Petition PRSA

A group of PR industry executives today announced a petition to the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) to remove PRSA accreditation — known as APR — as a requirement for being a national director or officer in the organization.

The group, which includes Edelman CEO Richard Edelman, Art Stevens of StevensGouldPincus, and Dave Rickey, bylaws revision chair of PRSA, issued a statement today, which read in part:

We are calling on PRSA to abandon the decades old requirement that its national officers and board members be accredited.

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