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Real estate journalism contest seeks entries

The National Association of Real Estate Editors has issued a call for entries for its 67th Annual Journalism Competition.

NAREE’s prestigious journalism competition is open to reporters, columnists, editors and freelancers covering commercial and residential real estate, mortgage finance, sustainable development and related topics in the broad field of real estate including home building and design.

Deadline: Enter on www.naree.org by pulling down the Journalism Contest Tab by March 1, 2017.

The Competition is for work published or aired in 2016. 

NAREE Competition categories for individual journalists include Best Collection of Work, Best Column, Best Economic Analysis, Best Residential Real Estate Story and Best Commercial Real Estate Story. 

Individuals or teams can enter work in Best Breaking News Story, Best Investigative Report or Series, Best International Real Estate Story and Best Blog.

Categories open to teams of journalists with multiple bylines include Best Team Report, Best Web Site and Best Real Estate Section. 

Enter work appearing online, in daily newspapers, weekly business newspapers, trade, and shelter magazines and commercial real estate publications as well as on news wire services, television and radio.

NAREE’s Platinum Award of $1,000 will recognize the Best Overall Individual Entry. The winner of the Best Freelance Collection will receive $500. The Ruth Ryon Best Young Journalist (age 30 or under) winner and Gold winners in 32 categories spanning the broad field of real estate will receive $250. 

The faculty of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University will judge entries on clarity of writing, objectivity, originality, depth of reporting, and/or graphic design/production.

All professional journalists writing for bonafide news outlets, both NAREE members and non-members, may enter.

Winners will be announced at NAREE’s Journalism Conference June 14-17, 2017 in Denver.  Winners may request complimentary admission to the full Conference at the Brown Palace Hotel, June 14-17, 2017. NAREE’s Awards Day is Friday, June 16.

NAREE’s Denver conference will present newsworthy panel discussions with top economists, developers, architects and realty company leaders.  NAREE University’s peer-to-peer professional development program for journalists will run twice daily during the conference.

Technical issues and questions? Contact Mary Doyle-Kimball, NAREE Executive Director at nareejcontest@gmail.com 

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.

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