NAREE 63rd Annual Journalism Award Categories
INDIVIDUAL OR TEAM AWARDS – ALL MEDIA
(Residential, Commercial or Financial Real Estate or Home Design, Luxury, Green Building
or Urban Design)
Category 1: Best Breaking News Report
The entrymust represent an immediate response to a news event. For a single story or packages
include initial online, print or social media coverage and subsequent development of the story.
Submissions must indicate how the writer(s) showed enterprise in obtaining and developing the
news, and how the report(s) had an impact on real estate markets locally or nationally.
Category 2: Best Investigative Report or Investigative Series (Submit Full Package)
Individuals or a team of reporters should submit all parts of the report or series and explain how
the writer(s) showed enterprise and how the work had an impact on the community or real estate
industry.
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS – ALL MEDIA – (Including social media)
(Residential, Commercial or Financial Real Estate or Home Design, Luxury, Green Building
or Urban Design)
Category 3: Best Column (Submit three columns)
Category 4: Best Series by an Individual (Submit all parts.-- Submit at least two
reports which have run on different days)
Category 5: Best Collection of work by an individual
(Submit 3 different work samples in the same or different media. Only entries with exactly 3
samples will be considered.)
Category 6: Best Home & Design Feature
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS – PRINT
DAILY NEWSPAPERS
Category 7: Best Residential Real Estate Report - Daily Newspaper
Category 8: BestMortgage or Financial Real Estate Report - Daily Newspaper
Category 9: Best Commercial Real Estate Report - Daily Newspaper
Category 10: Best Report - Daily Newspaper under 150,000 Circulation
(Residential or commercial, mortgage, or financial real estate, plus home design, green building
or urban design)
WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS
Category 11: Best Report -Weekly Business Newspaper
(Residential or commercial real estate, mortgage, or financial plus home design, green building
or urban design)
MAGAZINES
Category 12: Best Residential,Mortgage or Financial Real Estate Report -Magazine
(General circulation/shelter, business or financial magazine)
Category 13: Best TradeMagazine Report - Residential Real Estate,
Mortgage/Finance, or Home Building/ Residential Development Industries
Category 14: Best TradeMagazine Report - Commercial Real Estate Industry
ONLINE OR BROADCAST
Submit CD/DVDs for broadcasts, printouts and URLs whenever possible for online entries)
Category 15: Best Residential,Mortgage or Financial Real Estate Report or Feature
Category 16: Best Commercial Real Estate Report
Category 17: Best Blog (Residential, commercial, mortgage, or financial real estate - or - home
design, luxury and green building or urban design)
Category 18: Best Broadcast Report – Online, radio or television -- local, network or cable
channels (Residential, commercial, mortgage, or financial real estate - or - home design, luxury
and green building or urban design)
AWARDS FOR TEAMS OF JOURNALISTS
ALL MEDIA
Category 19: Best Team Report (Multiple bylined report - commercial, residential, financial real
estate or home design, green building or urban design)
PRINT
DAILY, WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS - Submit 3 different sections
Category 20: Best Newspaper Real Estate or Home Section
MAGAZINES - Submit 3 different sections
Category 21: Best Design, Home or ShelterMagazine
Category 22: Best Residential TradeMagazine
Category 23: Best Commercial TradeMagazine
NEWSLETTERS- Submit 3 different editions
Category 24: Best Newsletter (Commercial or residential real estate, or mortgage/finance)
ONLINE
WEBSITES
Category 25: BestWeb Site Solely Devoted to Residential, Commercial or Financial Real Estate
and/or Home Design. (Print out online cover page from 3 different days and submit URLs.)
Platinum Award for
Best Overall Individual Entry
$1,000
Chosen from individual winners in categories 1-18 recognizing a
single bylined work in all media.
President’s Award for
Best Freelance Collection
$500
Freelance journalistswho are not full-time staffers, butwrite for bona
fide news media outlets –all media –are eligible for this award.
• Entrant must check the entry form box: "Consider for Best
Freelance Collection."
•There is no additional fee to have entries which are already
submitted in categories 1-18 considered for this award.
• If the freelancer has submitted only one story for consideration in
only one ofNAREE's 18 individual categories, then two additional
freelance pieces must accompany the entry being considered for
an award in NAREE categories 1-18 (at no additional fee) and
be labeled: "Two additional writing samples for Best Freelance
Collection."Collectionmust include at least three samples ofwork.
Ruth Ryon Award for
Best Entry by a Young Journalist
$250
This award recognizes a single bylined work in any medium created
by and submitted by an individual 30 years old or younger as of
December 31, 2012.
• Entrantmust check the entry formbox: "Consider for Best Entry
by aYoung Journalist."
• There is no additional fee to have an entry submitted in the 18
individual categories considered for this award.
ELIGIBILITY
Entrants must be journalists - both NAREE active members and non members
- working for independent news outlets. These include newspapers, magazines,
Web sites, broadcast programs and newsletterswith editorial content not affiliated
with, nor subject to, the policies or review of trade associations, special interest
groups, and/or advertising/marketing departments.
The work entered must have been published, posted, or aired between Jan. 1,
2012 and Dec. 31, 2012.
Competition entry forms must be postmarked or submitted online before
March 1, 2013.Mailed entries must be received byMarch 5.
An entrant may submit only one (1) entry per category, but may enter as many
categories as he or she chooses after determining eligibility. Competition judges
reserve the right to decide if an entry is in the proper category, and to move those
they determine need reassignment as well as not to make awards in a particular
category. NAREE also reserves the right to cancel a category if fewer than five (5)
entries are received in the category. (Entry fee will be refunded if category is
canceled, and entry cannot be reassigned.)No work will be returned.
Writersmay enter their ownwork in any category. An entry entered in any of the
individual categories may also be used as one of the three entries in the best
collection of work category.
Editors may enter their own individually bylined work in any Individual
Category and editors may enter the work of their staff writers in any Team Award
Category (20-25) under their ownmembership or processing fee. But editorsmay not
enter category 19, "Best Team Report," unless they have a byline on the report. At
least one bylined teammembermust be aNAREEmember or pay the processing fee
to enter work in the "Best Team Report” category. Editors also may not use their
own membership or processing fee to enter the work of their staffers in the
IndividualCategories (1-18).
JUDGING
The competition is slated to be judged by journalism faculty of the E. W.
Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. Judges will be the sole
arbiters of the awards. Judges may choose not to bestow an award in a
particular category. Judges will consider criteria appropriate to the category
including, but not limited to:
CLARITY OFWRITING
OBJECTIVITY
ORIGINALITY
DEPTH OF REPORTING
DESIGN (IF APPLICABLE)
"Best Section," "Best Magazine," "BestWeb site," and “Best Newsletter”
entries will be judged on overall graphics presentation and use.
