NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bulldog Reporter announces the launch of the 2017 Bulldog Media Relations Awards, the biggest of the five annual programs geared towards PR professionals, corporate communications and agencies. Based on historical figures, this program is expected to garner hundreds of submissions.

As with all Bulldog Awards, this program will continue the tradition of being the only US-based PR awards program to be judged exclusively by working journalists. This year the judges will come from some of the most well respected news sources in the US including National Geographic Traveler, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Oregonian and Forbes. This list boasts a Pulitzer Prize winner making it understandable why the Bulldog Awards hold so much prestige.

The Bulldog Media Relations Awards has 33 categories, Gold, Silver and Bronze are up for grabs in each category with the Grand Prize winner being chosen from a multi-category award winner. Those privileged enough to be recognized will receive not only the coveted framed award certificate but all the publicity surrounding this honour including but not limited to, inclusion in the Bulldog Reporter’s Daily ‘Dog, a national press release, a profile page on Bulldogreporter.com, inclusion on all Bulldog Reporter’s social media platforms and more.

Bulldog Media Relations Awards submissions made on or before January 13, 2017 will be able to take advantage of early bird pricing at $395, after that date, the price for submissions will increase to $475 with a final deadline of February 20, 2017. Entering in multiple categories in encouraged with each additional submission for the same campaign, person or organization costing only $175

The full 2017 Bulldog Awards program schedule is available here.

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Bulldog Reporter is the leader in media intelligence supplying news, analysis and high-level training content to public relations and corporate communications professionals with the mission of helping these practitioners achieve superior competitive performance. Bulldog Reporter publishes the industry’s best-read, widest distributed trade journal, Bulldog Reporter’s Daily ’Dog. In addition, the company publishes a daily online newsletter—Inside Health Media—that focuses on media relations, and provides media list and media intelligence services through its parent company, Agility PR Solutions. Bulldog Reporter presents industry awards competitions—the Bulldog Awards—which recognize excellence in multiple categories including corporate social responsibility, media relations, digital and social marketing, not-for-profit and overall outstanding professional performance.