2016 Azbee Awards of Excellence
Category
Online > Enterprise News Story > Upper Midwest
Awarded to
Graham Wood, Senior Editor; Meg White, Managing Editor
Entry details
Are You Really Safer With a Gun?
Issue date (if applicable): 3/2/2015
Publication name: REALTOR® Mag Online
Publishing company: National Association of REALTORS®
Website home page: http://realtormag.realtor.org/
Please describe the publication's mission and readership:
REALTOR® Magazine is the business support tool for the 1.1 million members of the National Association of REALTORS®. We report news, trends, and strategies through print, online, and digital platforms to help our readers succeed as real estate salespeople and brokers in residential and commercial markets across the U.S and abroad. We publish daily on a wide variety of subject matter of importance to the real estate community, from sales and marketing advice to the latest developments in home and design to analysis of legal, economic, and political issues that affect how our readers do business.
Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:
After the murder of Arkansas real estate agent Beverly Carter in September 2014, REALTOR® safety was top of mind for the real estate industry. We heard from many readers and members of the National Association of REALTORS® that more real estate professionals should keep guns on them in the field to fend off would-be attackers. But these comments often felt like snap reactions without thought to the consequences of taking such measures. We decided to look at the issue from a security standpoint, asking law-enforcement experts to talk about what gun owners should and perhaps often aren’t prepared to do with a deadly weapon. The article helped inform association talking points for NAR, which focused heavily on the topic of safety in 2015. It also sparked a great deal of conversation both in the comment section underneath the article and in social media, and became one of our most shared articles of the year.
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http://realtormag.realtor.org/well-being/safety/article/2015/03/are-you-really-safer-gun
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Are You Really Safer With a Gun?
Category
Online > Enterprise News Story > Upper Midwest
Description
Publication name:
REALTOR® Mag Online
Company:
National Association of REALTORS®
Winner Status
- National Silver Award
- Regional Silver Award
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