Executive Director’s Journal
NAREE is all about making connections. Join NAREE to find out what’s happening with your journalist peers. NAREE is the only professional association for media covering real estate. Follow NAREE on X (@NAREEnews), Instagram (instagram.com/NAREEnews), and Facebook (fb.com/NAREEnews). You can also connect with me, personally, on LinkedIn. Look for the latest news about NAREE including posts on NAREE events, contests, and conferences. I hope you'll “like" what you see.
Besides online connection opportunities, NAREE sends members the NAREE e-News, the digital NAREE News, an annual Network directory in digital form, and posts the digital directory and digital annual Conference Program Book in the Members Only section of naree.org. Conference attendees also get a published paper copy of NAREE’s Conference Program Book.
NAREE welcomes information on job changes, stories about how to cover housing and commercial real estate, and how to track down sources online. To submit information, please contact me at mdkimball@naree.org.
In the Directory and Conference Program Book, NAREE leaders write about news industry trends and share skill-sharpening tips. And speaking of job changes, don’t forget to use NAREE’s Job Board here on naree.org to post a job opening.
NAREE membership is also about face-to-face contact – either on screen or in person, when possible. NAREE plans events in different cities each year when members gather to cover industry events and during NAREE's own annual conference.
NAREE’s 58th Annual Conference will be held June 18-21 in Austin, Texas at the Hyattt Regency.
NAREE’s 57th Annual Real Estate Journalism Conference was held June 6 to 9 at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip. In 2022, the NAREE Conference was held in Atlanta, Oct 11-14 at the Westin Buckhead Atlanta hotel. NAREE's 55th Annual Real Estate Journalism Conference was held in person in Miami, Tuesday, December 7 to Friday, December 10 at the Kimpton Epic. In 2020 NAREE’s 54th Annual Real Estate Journalism Conference was held virtually Wednesday, December 9 and Thursday, December 10.
NAREE's annual conference makes it easy to network with colleagues and to keep abreast of residential and commercial real estate industry trends and best practices for real estate journalism coverage.
Updates from real estate economists, CEOs, top brokers, home builders, developers, urban planners and analysts are part of the industry trends portion of the conference.
NAREE University, held at the annual conference, is designed to provide peer-to-peer professional development. Award winners tell their back stories and editors and reporters debate limits on social media and myriad timely topics to help journalists do their jobs better, Since tha Pandemic began, NAREE also has held several NAREE University Live virtual workshops.
Whether you’re covering luxury homes, green building or affordable housing; or new trends in office buildings, multi-family, hotels; or buying, selling or mortgage trends, NAREE has a network of journalists to start the conversation or help you dive deep. NAREE provides a forum for veterans to get together to compare notes and mentor those new-to-the-beat.
NAREE's Journalism Competition winners also are celebrated at NAREE’s annual conference. Results are posted after the conference on naree.org. NAREE’s Real Estate Journalism Competition entry deadline is March 1. The entry portal open Feb 1.
NAREE, an association of active members – reporters, writers, columnists editors and producers working in the broad field of real estate – includes both staffers and freelancers working for bona fide news outlets. NAREE also offers associate membership to communications professionals and writers who work for association and industry publications. Join or renew today.
Questions – or to receive a complimentary digital copy of the NAREE E-News, please contact me anytime at mdkimball@naree.org.
I look forward to hearing from you,
Mary Doyle-Kimball
NAREE Executive Director and 1994 NAREE President