Entry Deadline Nears for NAREE Journalism Competition;
$10,000 in Prizes to Nation's Best Realty/Housing Journalists
 
Entries must be postmarked by Wednesday Feb. 20 for the National Association of Real Estate Editors' expanded 58th Annual Journalism Awards Competition.
 
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. Entry forms are available at www.NAREE.org.
 
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. Special awards will recognize freelancers and young journalists.
 
Send all entries to:
58th Annual NAREE Journalism Awards Competition
Mary Doyle-Kimball, NAREE Executive Director
1003 NW 6th Terrace
Boca Raton, FL 33486
 
The faculty of E. W. Scripps School of Journalism of Ohio University will judge the competition. 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.

First- and second-place awards will be given in categories including: best residential article in a daily newspaper, best article in a weekly business newspaper, best online spot news report, best
home design feature, best commercial real estate magazine, best broadcast report, best blog, best commercial real estate report, best trade magazine report, best real estate section in daily newspapers, best mortgage article, best real estate news web site, best newsletter and more.

SEE FULL LISTING OF CATEGORIES BELOW

Winners will be invited to attend NAREE's Awards Luncheon Friday, May 9, 2008, and will receive complimentary admission to NAREE's Annual Journalism Conference in Dallas, Texas from May 7-10.

Founded in 1929, NAREE is a nonprofit professional association of writers, columnists, authors and editors.


Contact NAREE Executive Director
Mary Doyle-Kimball, 561-391-3599
madkimba@aol.com
www.naree.org

FULL LISTING OF CATEGORIES FOR JOURNALISM CONTEST

Individual Awards:

PRINT CATEGORIES

1. Best Spot Real Estate News Report - Daily Newspaper
2. Best Residential Real Estate Report - Daily Newspaper
3. Best Home Design Feature - Daily Newspaper
4. Best Mortgage or Financial Real Estate Report - Daily Newspaper
5. Best Commercial Real Estate Report - Daily Newspaper
6. Best Report - Daily Newspaper Less than 250,000 Circulation (residential, home design, commercial, mortgage, or financial report)
7. Best Report - Weekly Business Newspaper (residential, commercial, mortgage, or financial report - no daily publication products)
8. Best Feature - General Circulation/Shelter Magazine (no daily publication products)
9. Best Real Estate Report - General Circulation, Real Estate, Business, or Financial Magazine (residential, commercial, mortgage or financial report - no trade publications or daily publication products)
10. Best Trade Magazine Report - for the Residential Real Estate/Building/Development Industries (real estate, construction, development, mortgage, financial, building product or home design report - no association publications)
11. Best Trade Magazine Report for the Commercial Real Estate Industry (no association publications)

ONLINE & BROADCAST CATEGORIES