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Channel 4 and Guardian News and Media lead the nominations for this year's One World Media Awards , with six places each on the shortlist.

The awards, which recognise quality reporting of foreign affairs and the developing world, are now in their 24th year and this year include a new award for hard-hitting news pieces in print, broadcast or online.

Channel 4's coverage of Sri Lanka is shortlisted twice - in the TV and general news award. The broadcaster is also nominated for its reports from Somalia, Syria, and the work of journalist Jamal Osman. Sister channel More4 is shortlisted in the newly introduced sustainable development category.

Guardian News and Media dominates the press award, with nominations for two Observer Magazine pieces and a G2 article on Pakistan. The Guardian is also shortlisted for the sustainable development award and the news award, and the paper's Felicity Lawrence is nominated for journalist of the year.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on 8 May, presented by Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow, which will culminate in the presentation of a special award for an outstanding media project in the developing world.

One World Media director Marion Bowman said in a release: "2011 was an extraordinary year for international news - from the Arab spring spreading across the Middle East to the drought crisis in the Horn of Africa.

"In this context, the awards play a very important role in highlighting the significant work international journalists are doing in covering these stories and bringing them to UK audiences - often risking their own lives to do so.

"Never before has media had a more important and challenging role to play on a planet increasingly fractured by poverty and intolerance.

"Good media can help strengthen democracies, save lives and promote understanding and tolerance in UK audiences, which is why it is crucial to recognise the incredible work they do."

The full list of nominees follows:

Journalist of the Year Award

Felicity Lawrence - The Guardian

Jamal Osman - Channel 4

Sue Lloyd-Roberts - BBC Two

Radio Award

A Child to Sponsor - BBC Radio 4

Assignment - Haiti Cholera Epidemic - BBC World Service

The Boy with the Violin - Your World - BBC World Service

Television Award

Land of Anarchy - Panorama 2011 - BBC One

Sri Lanka's Killing Fields - Channel 4

Unreported World: Undercover Syria - Channel 4

Press Award

Joy vanished into Britain's child-sex trade. Why aren't we looking for her? - Observer Magazine

Pakistan's Dirty Secret - G2, The Guardian

The Rape of Men - Observer Magazine

New Media Award

HIGHRISE - One Millionth Tower - National Film Board of Canada

Lendwithcare.org Micro Loans Website - CARE International

Our Africa - SOS Children

Drama Award

Miss Bala – CANANA

Otelo Burning - Cinga Productions

Shuga: Sex, Love & Money - MTV Base

Famous, Rich and in the Slums - BBC One

The Rape of Men - Observer Magazine

Toughest Place to be a Binman - BBC Two

Sustainable Development Award

The Guardian - Crowded Planet Series - The Guardian

There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho - On the Level Productions

Up in Smoke - More 4

News Award

Aircraft carrier left us to die, say migrants - The Guardian

Famine in Somalia - al-Shabaab exclusive - Channel 4

Hagadera Hospital - ITV News on ITV1

Documentary Award

Marathon Boy - BBC Four

Sri Lanka's Killing Fields - Channel 4

The Invasion of Lampedusa - BBC Two and BBC Worldwide

Student Award

Bagong Silang - Zena Merton, London College of Communication

Kung Fu Grandma - Jeong-One Park, Royal Holloway, University of London

Shooting Freetown - Kieran Hanson, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology

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