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Real estate reporting contest seeks entries

The National Association of Real Estate Editors has issued a call for entries for NAREE’s 65th Annual Journalism Competition. Twenty-five categories will recognize excellence in digital, print and broadcast journalism.

Winners will be announced at NAREE’s Miami journalism conference June 24-27, expected to draw hundreds of journalists and real estate industry speakers to Florida.

NAREE’s prestigious journalism competition is open to reporters, columnists, editors and freelancers covering commercial and residential real estate and home and design.

Enter by mail or online by March 1, 2015, for work published or aired in 2014. Entry forms are on www.NAREE.org.

Categories for individual journalists include: Best Collection of Work, Best Column and Best Blog. Categories open to teams of journalists with multiple bylines include: Best Series, Best Investigative Report and Best Team Report.

The NAREE competition is aimed at journalists covering mortgage finance, foreclosures, commercial and residential real estate, green building, urban redevelopment, remodeling and other topics in the broad field of real estate. The competition is open to entries published in daily newspapers, weekly business newspapers, trade, investment and shelter magazines and commercial real estate publications for stories appearing in digital and print, wire services, television, radio and web sites.

The competition has a total of 75 Gold, Silver and Bronze category awards. Plus, the Platinum Award of $1,000 will be presented for 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 25 Gold category winners will receive $250 each.

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

All professional journalists, both NAREE members and non-members, may enter.

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.