The National Association of Real Estate Editors announced the winners of its 65th Annual Journalism Awards Competition, recognizing excellence in reporting, writing and editing stories about residential and commercial real estate.
Sarah Kleiner Varble, The Virginian-Pilot, received NAREE’s Platinum Award for Best Individual Entry.
Andrea Brambila of Inman News was the Gold Award Winner of the Ruth Ryon Award for Best Young Journalist for journalists 30 years old and younger. Ashley Gurbal Kritzer, Tampa Bay Business Journal, won the Silver Award in the Young Journalist category. The Bronze Award went to Cory Weinberg.
The President’s Gold Award for Best Freelance Collection went to Julie Satow, a freelance writer whose work appeared in The New York Times. Ken Harney, a freelancer for the Washington Post Writers Group and Inman News, earned the Silver Award for his freelance work and Camila McLaughlin, Unique Homes and New Home Source, took the Bronze.
NAREE presented the awards at its 49th Annual Real Estate Journalism Conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami.
A panel of expert judges from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University selected all award winners. Professor Emeritus Patrick S. Washburn, a former news reporter and editor, chaired the panel.
The 2015 NAREE award winners in 25 categories include:
Category 1: Best Collection of Work by an Individual
Gold Award – David Migoya, The Denver Post
Category 2: Best Column
Gold Award – Mary Beth Breckenridge, The Akron Beacon Journal
Category 3: Best Home & Design Story
Gold Award – Katy McLaughlin, The Wall Street Journal – Mansion
Category 4: Best Residential Real Estate Story in a Daily Newspaper
Gold Award – Julie Satow, Freelance Writer, The New York Times
Category 5: Best Mortgage or Financial Real Estate Story – Daily Newspaper
Gold Award – Joe Light, The Wall Street Journal
Category 6: Best Commercial Real Estate Story – Daily Newspaper
Gold Award – Michelle Jarboe McFee, The Plain Dealer
Category 7: Best Small Daily Newspaper Story
Gold Award – Josh Salman, Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Category 8: Best Weekly Newspaper Story
Gold Award – Sam Black, Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal
Category 9: Best Residential, Mortgage or Financial Real Estate Magazine Story, General Circulation
Gold Award – Al Barbarino, Real Estate Capital
Category 10: Best Trade Magazine Story
Gold Award – Ben Lane, HousingWire
Category 11: Best Commercial Trade Magazine Story
Gold Award – Rich Bockmann, The Real Deal Magazine
Category 12: Best Online Residential, Mortgage or Financial Real Estate Story
Co-Gold Award – Deborah Nelson, Ryan McNeill and Duff Wilson, Reuters
Co-Gold Award – Michelle Conlin, Reuters
Category 13: Best Online Commercial Real Estate Story
Gold Award – Heather Perlberg, Bloomberg News
Category 14: Best Blog
Gold Award – Polyana da Costa, Bankrate.com
Category 15: Best Audio or Video Report—Broadcast or Online, Radio or Television
Gold Award – Daren Blomquist, RealtyTrac Report
Category 16: Best Breaking News Story
Gold Award – Heather Perlberg, Nadja Brandt, and David M. Levitt, Bloomberg News
Category 17: Best Investigative Report or Investigative Series
Gold Award – Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette-Journal
Category 18: Best Series
Gold Award – Willoughby Mariano, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Category 19: Best Team Report
Gold Award – John Gittelsohn and Heather Perlberg, Bloomberg News
Category 20: Best Design, Home or Shelter Magazine
Gold Award – Gail Ravgiala, Design New England
Category 21: Best Residential Trade Magazine
Co-Gold Award – Denise Dersin, Professional Builder
Co-Gold Award – Matt Power, GreenBuilder Magazine
Category 22: Best Commercial Trade Magazine
Gold Award – Jennifer Molloy, The Institutional Real Estate Letter – Asia Pacific
Category 23: Best Newsletter
Gold Award – Heather Ogilvie and Carol Johnson Perkins, Fair Housing Coach
Category 24: Best Newspaper Real Estate or Home Section
Gold Award – Dan Beucke, Samantha Gowen, Jeff Collins, Marilyn Kalfus and Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register
Category 25: Best Web Site
Gold Award – Matt Power, Melissa Smith, Mary Kestner, Heather Wallace and Catie O’Keefe, GreenBuilder Magazine
