Category Awards: $250 cash award per category
AWARDS FOR INDIVIDUAL JOURNALISTS
DAILY NEWSPAPERS
Category 1: Best Residential Real Estate Report in a Daily Newspaper
Category 2: Best Mortgage or Financial Real Estate Report in a Daily Newspaper
Category 3: Best Commercial Real Estate Report in a Daily Newspaper
Category 4: Best Report in a Daily Newspaper under 250,000 Circulation
(Residential or commercial, mortgage, or financial real estate, plus home/urban design)
WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS
Category 5: Best Report in a Weekly Business Newspaper
(Residential or commercial real estate, mortgage, or financial)
MAGAZINES
Category 6: Best Real Estate, Mortgage or Financial Report in a Magazine
(General circulation/shelter, business or financial magazine)
Category 7: Best Trade Magazine Report for the Residential Real Estate,
Mortgage/Finance, or Home Building/ Residential Development Industries
Category 8: Best Trade Magazine Report for the Commercial Real Estate Industry
ONLINE OR BROADCAST
Submit CDs for broadcasts, printouts and URLs whenever possible for online entries)
Category 9: Best Residential Real Estate or Mortgage/Finance Report or Feature
Category 10: Best Commercial Real Estate Report
Category 11: Best Blog
(Residential or commercial real estate, mortgage/finance, or home design)
Category 12: Best Broadcast Report Online, radio or television -- local, network or cable channels
(Residential or commercial, mortgage, or financial real estate, plus home/urban design)
ALL MEDIA
Category 13: Best Home & Design Feature
Category 14: Best Column (Submit three columns)
(Residential, commercial or financial or home design)
Category 15: Best Series (Submit all parts -- Submit at least two reports which have run on different days)
(Residential, commercial or financial or home design)
Category 16: 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.)
AWARDS FOR TEAMS OF JOURNALISTS
DAILY OR WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS - Submit 3 different sections
Category 17: Best Newspaper Real Estate or Home Section More Than 250,000 Circulation
Category 18: Best Newspaper Real Estate or Home Section Less than 250,000 Circulation
MAGAZINES - Submit 3 different issues
Category 19: Best Shelter Magazine
Category 20: Best Residential Trade Magazine
Category 21: Best Commercial Trade Magazine
ONLINE OR IN PRINT Submit 3 issues
Category 22: Best Newsletter (Commercial or residential real estate, or mortgage/finance)
ONLINE
Category 23: Best Web Site Solely Devoted to Residential or Commercial Real Estate and/or Home Design.
(Print out online cover page from 3 different days and submit URLs.)
All Media
Category 24: Best Team Report (Multiple bylined report commercial, residential, or financial)
Awards for Individuals or Teams
Staple or tape entry form to each labeled submission, and paper clip entry fee check to form.
Major Credit cards accepted.
Deadline to Enter: March 1, 2010.
Category #/ Category Title (See list of categories)____________ /___________________
Entry Headline or Title _______________________________
Name of Eligible Entrant _______________________________
(..For categories 1-16 entrant name should be the same as the entry Byline or Standard Outcue.
..Editors may submit their own individual work in categories 1-16, but may not submit the work of their staff members in categories 1-16.
..In categories 17-25, editors and writers are eligible to submit work they have written/edited as part of a team effort.
..Editors may submit work for category 24 Best Team Report only if the submitting editor is a bylined member of the team.
..Category 17-25 only: Names of All Team Members to Appear on Award Certificate - no name substitutions or additions will be allowed after submission of this form.)
Name and Title of Bylined Journalist Submitting Entry___________________________
(..Note: A check in the full amount of the first place Cash Award will be made out to the submitting entrant.
..If team members in category 24 wish to share the first place award, please include those names on the above line.
..Award amount will be divided by the number of people listed.)
Media company of submitting entrant ________________________
Entry date(s) of publication, posting, or broadcast ____________________
Where does the name of media outlet and date of publication, posting or broadcast appear
on tear sheet, printout, or cassette?__________________________________
Business Address ____________________________
City/State/Zip __________________________
Business Phone/Fax __________________
Home Phone (not for publication____________________________________)
E-mail Address _________________________________________
Submitting Entrant's Editor/Supervisor Name and Phone Number ________________
__Yes, consider this entry for the Presidents Award for Young Journalist. Entrants must be 30 years or younger as of December 31, 2009.
__Yes, consider this entry and two other additional entries attached to it for the Presidents Award for Best Freelance Collection Award.
This entry is number ___ of _____ total entries. Total fees enclosed $______ Enclose check in US $ or charge to credit card.
Name on Card:__________________________________________________
Circle Card Type: AmEx MasterCard Visa Discover
Card Number:____________________________________ Exp Date:_______
If the media company or individual is submitting multiple entries, include a tally sheet.
If entries are separately packaged, indicate which entry has payment.
Entries received without payment and tally sheet may be disqualified.
Make check(s) payable to: National Association of Real Estate Editors.
2010 NAREE active members: No charge for the first entry.
Second entry is $15.
Third entry and above is $25 each.
Non-members: $75 processing fee for first entry.
Second entry is $15.
Third entry and above is $25 each.
Non-members may join NAREE by checking the box below and receive a 2010 membership at no additional charge.
(CLICK HERE FOR MEMBER BENEFITS)
__Yes, I want to join NAREE and apply the $75 first entry processing fee to cover 2009 membership.
Checking 'Yes' affirms that I am a working journalist for an independent news outlet, responsible for writing, editing, and/or reporting on real estate,
or home and design stories.
I understand that any question of eligibility will be resolved by the NAREE Board of Directors.
Describe editing/writing specialty:
Referred by:
NAREE dues are not tax deductible as a charitable contribution for federal tax purposes, but may be deducted as a business expense.
NAREE is a non-profit trade organization; IRS registration is #51-1036401.
ENTRY INSTRUCTIONS
Each completed entry in each category must include:
1. ENTRY FEES
NAREE Members: First entry is free. Second entry is $15, and each entry after second is $25.
Non members - $75 processing fee for the first entry. Second entry is $15 and each entry after second entry is $25.
Processing fee may be applied to membership dues by checking the appropriate box.
If one payment is submitted for numerous entries, an itemized tally sheet is required.
All entries submitted without fees or itemized tally sheet may be disqualified.
2. ENTRY FORM
Each line must be completed on the form. (Entry may be disqualified if lines are skipped.)
3. SUMMARY
Attach a brief summary (no more than 150 words) describing the intended audience for the publication, Web site or broadcast.
Explain why the entry serves the target audience, what is original about the story idea/content, why the reporting is innovative, and if applicable,
how a creative risk was taken.
4. ENTRY
Original tear sheet or photocopy of newspaper and/or magazine article(s), printout of online report, audiocassette, or CD w/protective cases are permitted.
The publication name and date must be visible on originals and copies of submissions.
Online and broadcast reports must also show name and date on submission.
Paper clip entry fee to completed entry form and staple (tape) entry form to upper left-hand corner of entry.
Do not put entries in binders with plastic sleeves.
Do not mount articles on cardboard.
Send entries in 9" by 12" envelopes if possible.
Best Blog - category #11, or Best Web site Entry - category #23 - Because of the interactive nature of Web sites, jurors will look at the Blog or Web site
on a given day during the judging period coupled with home page printouts.
Judging criteria will include editorial content, design, and ease of use.
Include the Blog URL or Web address on the summary sheet and application.
5. SPECIAL PACKING REQUIREMENTS, LARGE VOLUME ENTRIES
Put entries - that may not fit into an envelope - into their own box.
If submitting multiple entries, make sure they are stapled together w/entry form, not paper-clipped. Use one envelope if possible or shipping boxe(s).
6. NOTE:
Winning entries will be displayed at the awards ceremony in Austin, TX in early June 2010.
No entries will be returned.
Send all entries to:
60th Annual NAREE Journalism Awards Competition
Mary Doyle-Kimball, Executive Director
1003 NW 6th Terrace
Boca Raton, FL 33486
(561) 391-3599
About NAREE
The National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) Journalism Awards Program has recognized excellence in reporting, writing and editing
since 1949. Award winning stories and coverage run the gamut from affordable housing, the mortgage crisis, and the business of real estate, to news
and trend analysis on government housing policy, the environment, urban growth, land use, investments, construction and home design.
NAREE, founded in 1929, is the only professional association of writers, editors, columnists, and freelancers covering residential, commercial and
financial real estate as well as home and design features for general circulation and trade media, online, on the air, and in print.
NAREEs board of directors and committee chairs include writers and editors from the Washington Post Writers Group, Arizona Republic,
New York Post, Bloomberg News, Building Products magazine, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Bankrate.com, Los Angeles Times, Time magazine,
National Real Estate Investor and Austin American-Statesman.
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 newsletters with editorial content not affiliated with, nor subject to, the policies or review of
trade associations, special interest groups, and/or advertising departments.
The work entered must have been published, posted, or aired between Jan 1, 2009 and Dec 31, 2009.
Competition entry forms must be postmarked on or before March 1, 2010.
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 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.
Writers may enter their own work 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 (17-25) under their own membership or processing fee.
But editors may not enter category 24, "Best Team Report," unless they have a byline on the report.
At least one bylined team member must be a NAREE member 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 Individual Categories (1-16).
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 OF WRITING
OBJECTIVITY
ORIGINALITY
DEPTH OF REPORTING
DESIGN (IF APPLICABLE)
"Best Section," "Best Magazine," "Best Web site," and Best Newsletter entries will be judged on overall graphics presentation and use of
graphic elements to help communicate the message to the readers.
MAIL APPLICATION AND ENTRIES TO:
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