NAREE's 66th Annual Real Estate Journalism Contest Adds Categories
/Enter online only by March 1, 2016 - 11:59 PM ET
Several new categories for NAREE's 66th annual real estate and home and design journalism competition have been added. New award categories for individuals include the splitting of the Best Collection of Work Category into Best Residential Collection and Best Commercial Collection and the Best Design Story into Best Interior Design Story and Best Architecture Story.
NAREE has also added categories for work focused on economic analysis and international real estate. Two additional forms of digital communication will receive recognition with the addition of the Best Collection of Tweets and Best Short Blog Post by an Individual categories.
This year's contest will also feature a Best Photo by a Real Estate Journalist category.
Many categories such as Best Column, Best Website, Best Section and Best Newsletter as well as the various Best Magazine categories will only require one sam- ple of work to be judged instead of three.
After 65 years of allowing printed entries, NAREE is switching to an all online entry system with a portal on NAREE.org that will open by Feb 1, 2016. All entries must be submitted online by 11:59 PM March 1, 2016.
All journalists in the broad field of real estate – print, online and on air journalists whose work is published, posted or broadcast on bona fide independent news outlets in 2015 can enter. Categories listed below include options for writers, editors, columnists, bloggers, investigative reporters and freelancers -- covering: residential and commercial real estate, mortgages and finance, home and urban design, luxury, green building and architecture.
Awards include:
• PLATINUM AWARD for Best Overall Individual Entry -- $1,000 cash prize.
• PRESIDENT’S AWARD for Best Freelance Collection -- $500
• RUTH RYON AWARD for Best Young Journalist -- $250 (Entrant must be 30 years or younger)
• CATEGORY AWARDS -- Gold, Silver and Bronze -- Cash awards of $250 will be presented to the Gold Winners. All winners may request complimentary admission to NAREE's Spring conference at Harrah’s Hotel in New Orleans, June 8-11, 2016. NAREE's Awards Day is Friday, June 10.
32 Categories
Options for Individual Journalists and Teams of Journalists
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS - ALL MEDIA
(Residential, Commercial, Mortgage or Financial Real Estate, Public Policy, Luxury, Green Building, Architecture, Home or Urban Design) Category 1: Best Collection of Work by an Individual Covering Residential Real Estate (Submit 3 stories)
Category 2: Best Collection of Work by an Individual Covering Commercial Real Estate (Submit 3 stories)
Category 3: Best Column (Submit 1 column)
Category 4: Best Economic Analysis
Category 5: Best Interior Design Story
Category 6: Best Photo by a Real Estate Journalist (Submit 1 photo. No entries from full-time photographers)
Category 7: Best Architecture Story
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS - NEWSPAPERS - PRINT OR DIGITAL Category 8: Best Residential Real Estate Story - Daily Newspaper
Category 9: Best Mortgage or Financial Real Estate Story - Daily Newspaper
Category 10: Best Commercial Real Estate Story - Daily Newspaper
Category 11: Best Small Daily Newspaper Story - Daily Newspaper under 150,000 Circulation
(Residential, Commercial, Mortgage or Financial Real Estate, Luxury, Green Building, Home or Urban Design) Category 12: Best Weekly Newspaper Story - Weekly Business Newspaper
(Residential, Commercial, Mortgage or Financial Real Estate, Luxury, Green Building, Home or Urban Design)
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS - MAGAZINES - PRINT OR DIGITAL
Category 13: Best Residential, Mortgage or Financial Real Estate Magazine Story - General Circulation
(Shelter, Business or Financial story in a consumer publication)
Category 14: Best Residential Trade Magazine Story (Residential Real Estate or Development, Mortgage. Finance or Home Building) Category 15: Best Commercial Trade Magazine Story
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS - ONLINE OR BROADCAST
Category 16: Best Online Residential, Mortgage or Financial Real Estate Story
Category 17: Best Online Commercial Real Estate Story
Category 18: Best Tweet Collection (Submit 3 tweets 140 characters or less published on Twitter)
Category 19: Best Short Blog Post (Less than 250 words plus any photos, graphics and videos produced by
the individual entrant not staff artists or photographers)
Category 20: Best Audio or Video Report – Broadcast or Online, Radio or Television local, network, subscription or Internet channels (Residential, Commercial, Mortgage or Financial Real Estate, Luxury, Green Building, Home or Urban Design)
INDIVIDUAL OR TEAM AWARDS - ALL MEDIA Category 21: Best Breaking News Story
Category 22: Best Investigative Report or Investigative Series Category 23: Best Series (Submit 2 or 3 parts)
Category 24: Best Blog (Submit 1 blog - Residential, Commercial, Mortgage or Financial Real Estate, Luxury, Green Building, Home or Urban Design.)
Category 25: Best International Real Estate Story (Any story focused on real estate outside the U. S.)
TEAM AWARDS - ALL MEDIA
Category 26: Best Team Report (Multiple bylined report - Residential, Commercial, Mortgage or Financial Real Estate, Luxury, Green Building, Home or Urban Design)
INDIVIDUAL OR TEAM AWARDS - MAGAZINES OR NEWSLETTERS - PRINT OR DIGITAL Category 27: Best Design, Home or Shelter Magazine (Submit 1 magazine)
Category 28: Best Residential Trade Magazine (Submit 1 magazine)
Category 29: Best Commercial Trade Magazine (Submit 1 magazine)
Category 30: Best Newsletter (Submit 1 newsletter - Residential, Commercial, Mortgage or Financial Real Estate, Luxury, Green Building, Home or Urban Design.)
INDIVIDUAL OR TEAM AWARDS - NEWSPAPERS - PRINT OR DIGITAL
Category 31: Best Newspaper Real Estate or Home Section (Submit 1 section - Daily or Weekly Newspapers)
INDIVIDUAL OR TEAM AWARDS - ONLINE
Category 32: Best Web Site - (Submit 1 URL - Solely Devoted to Residential, Commercial, Mortgage and/or Financial Real Estate, Luxury, Green Building Home and/or Urban Design)
All entries must be submitted online by 11:59 PM ET, March 1, 2016.
Scroll down to "Association Headlines" and click "more" for a list of last year's winners.
Questions and Technical Support Email: NAREEjcontest@gmail.com or call NAREE Executive Director, Mary Doyle-Kimball at 561-391-3599.