Kate Fitch

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Kate Fitch

Dr Kate Fitch is academic chair of public relations at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, where she has taught since 2001. She has published on ethics, pedagogy, gender, history and culture in relation to public relations; her current research investigates representations of Australian female practitioners in the twentieth century. Kate is on the editorial boards of Public Relations Review, Public Relations Inquiry and Prism. Her book, Professionalizing Public Relations: History, Gender and Education will be published by Palgrave in 2016.

How popular culture challenges the professionalism of public relations

My favourite fictional public relations practitioner, the vile Malcolm Tucker of The Thick of It (2005–2012), was voted only the...