New Home Source tied with Bloomberg News for top honors in the 65th Annual Journalism Awards from the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) with seven awards each. The Wall Street Journal was second with six awards.

The journalism awards, presented on Friday, June 26, 2015, at Miami’s InterContinental Hotel capped a four-day meeting attended by more than 150 real estate writers and editors from the nation’s leading newspapers, websites and magazines. To insure impartiality, award judging was done by a retired profession of journalism from Ohio University.

65th Annual Journalism Awards of The National Association of Real EstateFor the second year in a row, Patricia Garcia, BDX Content Manager, was honored with an award for Best Newsletter. This year’s Bronze Award follows up her Gold Award last year for The New Home Source Home of the Week newsletter.

Four other contributors to New Home Source were also honored, led by Camilla McLaughlin, who received three awards for her work for NHS. Also honored for articles for New Home Source were Ken Harney, who also writes a nationally syndicated column for The Washington Post; Marcie Geffner, who contributes to The Los Angeles Times and other media; and Lew Sichelman, who writes a nationally syndicated column on real estate in addition to his work for New Home Source.

The NAREE meeting included speakers and panelists on a variety of topics as well as tours of cutting-edge, Miami area real estate projects. Several CEOs and presidents (as well as six chief economists) spoke from leading organizations and companies that included the National Association of Home Builders, Crescent Communities, the National Association of Realtors, leading MLSs and brokers, and Realtor.com, Zillow, Trulia, Homes.com.

Other media honored included The New York Times, The Washington Post, Seattle Times, Bankrate.com, The Denver Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Inman News, The Boston Globe, Reuters, Consumer Reports, Professional Builder, The Chicago Tribune, RealtyTrac Reports, The Houston Chronicle, The Dallas Business Journal, The New York Daily News, The Arizona Republic and others.

65th Annual Journalism Awards of The National Association of Real EstateFor the second year in a row, Jay McKenzie, BDX Director of Content and Social Media, was a panelist and speaker on new media models emerging in real estate. Patricia Garcia, BDX Content Manager, represented New Home Source again this year in a round of three-minute Meet the Press meetings with attendees at the event.

BDX is very proud of New Home Source’s recognition by NAREE and applaud our winners!

NAREE 2014 Award CeremonyWe are so very pleased to announce that our very own Patricia Garcia, BDX Content Manager, and New Home Source received the Gold Award for Best Newsletter on Friday night at the 64th Annual Meeting of the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) in Houston.

This is the pre-eminent award for real estate journalism. The program honors excellence in reporting, writing and editing stories about residential and commercial real estate. A panel of judges from the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University selected winners. Patrick S. Washburn, a former news reporter and editor and a professor emeritus, chaired the panel.

More than 300 journalists from leading media and industry leaders from around the nation attended the event. Patricia and Jay McKenzie, BDX Director of Content, were both panelists at the event. Patricia also represented New Home Source ably in a fast-paced series of three-minute Meet the Press interviews. Leaders of realtor.com, Trulia, Zillow, Homes.com and several MLSs and brokerages were present as speakers, panelists and attendees.

In presenting the Gold Award to Patricia Garcia for the New Home Source Home of the Week eNewsletter, the judges stated,

“This e-newsletter offers far more than its home of the week feature. It covers the hottest trends from cool gadgets and gizmos to the future of the mortgage interest deduction.”home of the week newsletter

In the above photo, Patricia has just received her well-deserved award. Standing between Jay and Patricia are Ken Harney, a columnist for New Home Source, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and many other leading newspapers across the nation. Next to him is Michele Lerner, a frequent contributor to New Home Source, New Home Source Professional, Fox News, The Washington Post and REALTOR Magazine.

NAREE is a non-profit journalism organization founded in 1929. A list of all award winners can be seen at: http://www.naree.org/index.php?src=news&srctype=detail&category=Association%20Headlines&refno=151

Congratulations, Patricia!