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Real estate journalists organization contest accepting entries

The National Association of Real Estate Editors is accepting entries in its annual contest.

The deadline to enter in its 25 categories is March 1.

The contest is open to journalists who cover residential and commercial real estate and mortgage finance and/or new home design, luxury and green building and urban design. It is open to all media — print, online and on air.

A Platinum Award winner for Best Overall Individual Entry receives $1,000. A President’s Award for Best Freelance Collection receives $500, and the Ruth Ryon Award for Best Young Journalist receives $250.

New this year is a best breaking news report category. The entry must represent an immediate response to a news event. For a single story or packages including initial online, print or social media coverage and subsequent development of the story. Submissions must indicate how the writer or writers showed enterprise in obtaining and developing the news, and how the report (s) had an impact on real estate markets locally or nationally.

Individual categories include Best Blog, Best Column, Best Home & Design Feature, Best Commercial Real Estate Report, Best Financial Report and Best Residential Report, while team categories include Daily Newspapers, Weekly, Newspapers, Magazines and Web sites.

For more information, 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.

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