Better Know A Media Org: PRSSA

Today’s organization: Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA)

About the organization:
The Public Relations Student Society of America is PRSA’s student arm, dedicated to “cultivat[ing] a favorable and mutually advantageous relationship between students and professional public relations practitioners.”

Number of members: 9,000

To join, you must:
Be a student at a college or university with a PRSSA chapter, or start a chapter at a qualifying school.

You’ll get:
Scholarships
Annual student conference
More

And for that, you’ll pay:
$50 a year

We’ve compiled as many professional organizations as we can find in all the disciplines that mediabistro visitors work in, and will be featuring one a day til we run out. We’re going in alphabetical order so nobody feels slighted, but if we skipped your favorite group by mistake, please let us know.

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