PRSA Pittsburgh Announces 2017 Renaissance Awards

Pittsburgh, PA (November 18, 2016) – The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), Pittsburgh chapter, announced its annual Renaissance Awards will be held on Thursday, January 26, 2017, at the Sheraton Pittsburgh Hotel in the Grand Station Ballroom.

Traditionally held at venues in downtown Pittsburgh, the 2017 PRSA Pittsburgh Renaissance Awards are moving to Station Square to accommodate its growing list of attendees. This keystone event draws approximately 200 professionals from the Greater Pittsburgh area.

Each year, the Renaissance Awards honor local organizations, agencies, businesses, and communicators for their innovative work across all aspects of public relations and marketing communications. With focus on recognizing the best work – and industry leadership – the Renaissance Awards bolster camaraderie with practitioners as part of a night of celebration.

“The Pittsburgh PR community is really tightknit – we often go from competitors to colleagues and back again. The Renaissance Awards offers us a unique opportunity to celebrate each other’s successes and simultaneously meet our next collaborators too,” said PRSA Pittsburgh President Steve Radick.  “It’s these connections that are created and built upon at events like the Renaissance Awards that make our PR community one of the strongest in the country.”

As part of PRSA Pittsburgh’s commitment to its members and local practitioners, the chapter has also updated its award entries for 2017. With emphasis on digital and social communications, entrants can now select from 13 campaign categories, seven tactical categories and eight individual awards.

PRSA Pittsburgh began accepting award submissions Friday, Nov. 11, at 8 a.m. with an early bird deadline of Nov. 25, by 5 p.m. All entries after that must be received no later than Dec. 5, at 5 p.m.

On the evening of the awards, PRSA Pittsburgh will host senior practitioners at a pre-cocktail hour beginning at 4:30 p.m., followed by a cocktail hour for all members and non-members at 5:30 p.m. The award ceremony and dinner will officially begin at 7 p.m.

For more information about PRSA Pittsburgh and the 2017 Renaissance Awards, please visit www.prsa-pgh.org. 

Watch a recap of the awards last year on our Youtube channel, PRSA Pittsburgh. Also, see photos from the ceremony, here.

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