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The Observer and Independent both have two writers shortlisted for the journalism category of this year's Orwell Prize for political writing .

The six nominated writers (see full list below) were shortlisted alongside a new prize category for political bloggers , which saw Iain Dale and the Guardian's Andrew Sparrow make the grade.

"We tried to get the judges to understand that there are some really important things going on in the blogosphere that aren't appearing anywhere else," Jean Seaton, director of the prize, said at an event announcing the shortlists.

The full shortlists for all three prize categories is below:

Journalism

Catherine Bennett - The Observer (six articles)

Patrick Cockburn - The Independent, London Review of Books (six articles)

Peter Hitchens - Mail on Sunday (four articles)

Donald Macintyre - The Independent (four articles)

Peter Oborne - Daily Mail, Channel 4 Dispatches, Prospect (four articles, two programmes)

Henry Porter - The Observer (six articles)

Blogs

Alix Mortimer - The People's Republic of Mortimer

Andrew Sparrow - Guardian Politics Blog

Chekov - Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness

Iain Dale - Iain Dale's diary

Jack Night - NightJack

Paul Mason - BBC Newsnight - Idle Scrawl

Books

Andrew Brown - Fishing in Utopia

Tony Judt - Reappraisals

Owen Matthews - Stalin's Children

Hsiao-Hung Pai - Chinese Whispers

Ahmed Rashid - Descent Into Chaos

Mark Thompson - The White War

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Laura Oliver
Laura Oliver
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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