The Page Center's oral history project conducts and preserves detailed interviews with those who personify the Page Principles. These oral histories focus primarily on the topics of ethics in public communication and corporate responsibility. They are collected, indexed and made widely available—along with an array of other research materials—to academics, professionals and the general public in a variety of electronic formats and at the Page Center research archive at Penn State.

Goals of the Oral History Collection

• Preserve the history of public relations, corporate communication, journalism, and other forms of public communication through the words of those who lived it.
• Collect and extend the opinions and analysis of the "best voices" on the subjects of ethics in communication, corporate responsibility and other seminal issues in public relations and public communication.

Dissemination of Oral Histories

The key to success of the oral history collection is to make the interviews searchable, easily accessible, and useful to professionals, researchers and the public. That requires detailed indexing and editing of the raw material and making the results widely available, primarily in electronic formats.

• The Center has created an online finding index of all oral histories it conducts or collects. Using the finding index, researchers can easily access material within and across interviews by topic, issue or specific question.

Portions of interviews related to a particular topic (e.g. Code of Ethics / Mission Statements / Credos) will then be available to researchers using video-streaming via the Center's website.

     - All transcripts have been edited for brevity and clarity -