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Guardian journalist Simon Rogers is the first person to be publicly nominated for a new City University alumni award , which aims to recognise excellence and innovation in journalism.

Rogers, who completed a newspaper journalism course at City University in 1991, is the editor of the Guardian's Datablo g

and Datastore . He received a special commendation when the Datablog won a Royal Statistcal Society award last year.

Six journalists have been shortlisted for the XCity award in total. A post on the XCity magazine website says other shortlisted candidates will be revealed over the next few days.

The winner will receive a £500 prize.

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