NAREE contest deadline is Wednesday

The National Association of Real Estate Editors has extended the deadline to enter the 64th Annual Real Estate Journalism Competition to Wednesday, March 5, for work published, posted or broadcast in 2013.

Entries need to be submitted on www.naree.org by Wednesday at 11:59 PM or postmarked by March 5 and received in the NAREE office by mail no later March 10.

The National Association of Real Estate Editors offers 25 categories to recognize excellence in the extremely broad field of real estate journalism which runs the gamut from residential, commercial and mortgage finance to public policy, sustainable urban and home design, among others.

The Gold Award for Best Freelance Collection comes with a $500 cash prize. The Platinum Award for Best Overall Entry includes a $1,000 cash prize.

Investment, mixed-used and high-rise development; transit-oriented projects; redevelopment of historic properties; real estate on Wall Street — securitized mortgages, publicly traded builders and REITs; commercial transactions; online real estate; short sales; multifamily; hotel and resort development; green building and remodeling are among the topics journalists may consider as they select their entries covering the constantly evolving filed of real estate. Staff writers, freelancers, columnists, bloggers and editors are eligible to enter their work. More categories are open this year for teams of journalists and digital journalists.

Commercial real estate writers, columnists, bloggers and editors — both staff and freelance — along with those covering the business of real estate brokerage, luxury housing and the mortgage market, should consider entering.

To enter, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.