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Two Guardian journalists have made this year's shortlist for the Orwell Journalism Prize.

Paul Lewis is nominated for his coverage of the G20 protests, which has already won the journalist the accolade of reporter of the year at the British Press Awards. Amelia Gentleman has been named amongst seven nominees, including the Mail on Sunday's Peter Hitchens, for her social affairs work.

Each year the Orwell Prize recognises works that "achieve George Orwell's ambition to make political writing into an art".

In the journalism category David Reynolds broke away from the print pack with his nomination for work on BBC Radio 4 and BBC News Online.

"Although moaning about the decline of journalism has become something of a national and international cliché, these acutely written, well-evidenced, careful bits of contemporary journalism show, in fact, it is in fine form," says Jean Seaton, director of the prize, in a release.

Sky News' foreign affairs editor Tim Marshall received a nod in the shortlist for the blog prize for his Foreign Matters blog alongside legal issues blogger Jack of Kent and four others.

Index On Censorship chief executive John Kampfner has been shortlisted for the book prize for his work 'Freedom For Sale: How We Made Money and Lost Our Liberty'.

The winners of the three prizes will be announced on 19 May.

A full list of the shortlisted nominees follows:

Journalism Prize

John Arlidge, Sunday Times (Magazine, News Review)

Amelia Gentleman, Guardian (G2)

Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday

Paul Lewis, Guardian

Anthony Loyd, Times; Standpoint

Hamish McRae, Independent

David Reynolds, BBC (Radio 4, News Online)

Blog Prize

Hopi Sen, Hopi Sen Jack of Kent, Jack of Kent Laurie Penny, Penny Red and others Madam Miaow, Madam Miaow Says Tim Marshall, Foreign Matters Winston Smith, Working with the Underclass

Book Prize

Christopher De Bellaigue, 'Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten Peoples'

Petina Gappah, 'An Elegy for Easterly'

Andrea Gillies, 'Keeper'

John Kampfner, 'Freedom For Sale: How We Made Money and Lost Our Liberty'

Kenan Malik, 'From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Legacy'

Michela Wrong, 'It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower'

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Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)

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