Real estate reporting competition open for entries

Categories and cash awards for the National Association of Real Estate Editors’ newly expanded 58th Annual Journalism Awards Competition have increased by more than a third.

The entry deadline is Feb. 20, 2008, for work published or aired in 2007. More than 70 awards in 35 categories — including seven for online journalists and an overall award for freelancers — are earmarked for winners. Cash awards of more than $10,000 include a $2,000 prize for the best overall individual entry.

New categories will appeal to journalists from weekly business newspapers, mortgage publications, trade publications and online news outlets that specialize in spot news, commercial and financial real estate news. Shelter journalists will also find several categories to enter.

Individual awards, team honors and awards for best publications have included topics from affordable housing, real estate lending, government housing policy, the environment, investments, to construction, architecture and design. Journalists from the nation’s leading newspapers, Internet media, magazines and broadcast outlets enter this prestigious real estate journalism competition, which has recognized excellence in writing, reporting, and editing since 1949.

The James D. Carper Award for Best Entry by a Young Journalist will recognize work from individuals 30 years or younger. All professional journalists, both NAREE members and nonmembers, may enter. Go to naree.org for entry forms. The faculty of E. W. Scripps School of Journalism of Ohio University will judge the competition.

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