NAREE`s Washington Conference Is Attracting New Freelancers and Top Staffers From Newspapers, Real Estate Magazines and Web Sites Nationwide

WASHINGTON--(Business Wire)--
The National Association of Real Estate Editors' (NAREE's) 43rd Annual Real
Estate Journalism Conference has added a significant instructional segment for
the nation`s growing ranks of freelance journalists to its news-making agenda on
new mortgage realities, foreclosure bailouts, and green building incentives.

HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan will deliver the keynote address on Thursday, June
18, kicking off a four-day conference focusing on how President Obama's housing
policy will spawn new residential and commercial redevelopment trends.

Programs available to freelance journalists and staffers will include sessions
on blogging, videocasting and tips on getting new assignments as the print
news-hole shrinks. "This is the finest freelancer symposium ever created because
each session is created by journalists for journalists," said NAREE Executive
Director Mary Doyle-Kimball.

Journalists attending the NAREE conference will visit Capitol Hill for House and
Senate committee briefings, listen to the head of the White House Correspondents
Association and the executive editor of the Washington Post at the National
Press Club, and tour notable LEED- certified mixed-use waterfront projects in
Metro DC.

Ken Harney of the Washington Post Writers Group is chairing the event, detailed
at www.NAREE.org. Billed as the most affordable journalism conference, it's open
to staff writers, real estate editors, Internet journalists, business editors
and freelancers. More than 100 of the nation`s best real estate writers are
expected--including winners of NAREE`s Journalism Awards Competition and the
Bruss Real Estate Book Awards Competition. Both awards programs will be held
Saturday, June 20.

NAREE's ever popular Meet The Press will offer freelancers, columnists, and
publicists face-to-face mini-meetings with editors and real estate journalists
for queries and pitches.

Speakers include economists and officials from: FDIC, the Federal Reserve,
Federal Housing Finance Agency, National Association of Realtors, National
Association of Home Builders, National Multi Housing Council, National
Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Real Estate Roundtable and the
Mortgage Bankers Association.

NAREE offers bargain pricing--conference registration fees start at only $99.

Conference headquarters: Hilton Washington Embassy Row, near DuPont Circle. June
18-21, 2009.

Registration: www.NAREE.org.

Founded in 1929, NAREE is a nonprofit association of writers, authors, editors
and communicators specializing in commercial and residential real estate,
design, finance and construction.

For NAREE
Mary Doyle-Kimball, 561-391-3599
MADKimba@aol.com
www.NAREE.org

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