2008 PRisms 

The annual PRism Awards commend the achievements of public relations professionals throughout Dayton.

Winners were notified by mail the week of March 17 and a formal recognition dinner was held on Thursday, April 10, 2008, at the Schuster Performing Arts Center.

Click the links below for this year's winners!

Click here to view photos from the 2008 PRism Awards Dinner.

PRism Awards
The prestigious PRism Award recognizes the creativity, planning and enthusiasm that go into implementing an exceptional public relations initiative. The competition is open to both PRSA members and non-members who work or live in the Dayton area. Winners earn a PRism or Award of Merit and one entry is named Best of Show. Winning entries are honored at the annual PRism Awards Ceremony held each spring.

2008 PRism Award Winners
The Dayton/Miami Valley Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America honored top area public relations professionals at its PRism Awards Dinner in April 2008.

A panel of public relations professionals from another PRSA chapter judged the entries, which represented projects completed in 2007, based on research, planning, execution, results, and support materials. Winners were selected in the following categories: internal communications, marketing communications, media relations, public service, special events & observances, Web sites, writing, and for the first time in a long time, student.

Smitty Awards
Each year, the Dayton/Miami Valley Chapter presents the Smitty Award to an individual from the Miami Valley who has demonstrated communications excellence. Named for the late Rex Smith, a highly regarded public relations practitioner in Dayton for more than 40 years and a former chapter member, it is awarded to a person whose community contributions have occurred in part, or in whole, because of particularly effective communications and public relations.

New! PRSA Media Friend of the Year Award
For the first time in 2008, Dayton Area PRSA awarded the Media Friend of the Year Award. The award honors a member of the local media who is invested in the success of the community and actively tries to report it. The first recipient is Jim Bucher of WDTN-TV2.