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The first ever blogger category in the Orwell Prize 2009 sees a mix of 12 professional journalist and non-journalist bloggers in its longlist, which was announced today.

Political bloggers, such as Iain Dale and Hopi Sen, will battle journalists, including blogs from Paul Mason and Andrew Sparrow, to get to the next stage.

"In the year we ran Orwell's diary as a blog, the entries that were selected had to do something distinctive - react immediately to events, take risks, speak to their readers and capture what it means to be at the centre of a story or situation as it evolves," said Jean Seaton, the director of the prize said, in a release.

"But the best of them do what reporting does - tell us something we need to know, but often with a highly personal voice."

The traditional political journalism prize sees a range of publications longlisted, including two from the Observer: Catherine Bennett and Henry Porter; and two from the Independent: Patrick Cockburn and Paul Vallely. Journalists Nick Davies and Patrick Cockburn are among the entrants on the list for the book prize.

Shortlists will be announced on March 25 2009. The full longlists for the three categories can be seen below.

Journalism Prize long list

Catherine Bennett - The Observer

Martin Bright - New Statesman, Channel 4 Dispatches

Patrick Cockburn - The Independent, London Review of Books

Lindsey Hilsum - New Statesman

Peter Hitchens - The Mail on Sunday

Donald Macintyre - The Independent

Peter Oborne - Daily Mail, Channel 4 Dispatches, Prospect

Arkady Ostrovsky - The Economist, Prospect

Henry Porter - The Observer

Jonathan Steele - The Guardian

Paul Vallely - The Independent, The Independent on Sunday

Michela Wrong - New Statesman, Financial Times, Slate

The Blog Prize long list

Alix Mortimer - The People's Republic of Mortimer

Andrew Sparrow - Guardian Politics Blog

Chekov - Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness

Hopi Sen - Blog from the backroom

Iain Dale - Iain Dale's Diary

Jack Night - Night Jack

Mark Easton - BBC News - Mark Easton's UK

Neil Robertson - The Bleeding Heart Show

Oliver Kamm - Times Online - Oliver Kamm

Paul Mason - BBC Newsnight - Idle Scrawl

The Heresiarch - Heresy Corner

Tom Harris MP - And another thing...

The Book Prize longlist

Andrew Brown - Fishing in Utopia

Patrick Cockburn - Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq

Nick Davies - Flat Earth News

Eva Figes - Journey to Nowhere

Matthew Green - The Wizard of the Nile

Diarmuid Jeffreys - Hell's Cartel

Tony Judt - Reappraisals

Hatim Kanaaneh - A Doctor in Galilee

Sara Maitland - A Book of Silence

Owen Matthews - Stalin's Children

Mark Mazower - Hitler's Empire

Hsiao-Hung Pai - Chinese Whispers

Ahmed Rashid - Descent Into Chaos

David Runciman - Political Hypocrisy

Philippe Sands - Torture Team

Jeremy Seabrook - The Refuge and the Fortress

Mark Thompson - The White War

A. N. Wilson - Our Times

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