Reports about former prime minister Kevin Rudd, Australia's live cattle exports and the Skype sex scandal have been nominated for Walkley awards.
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Canberra Times cartoonist David Pope has been commended for his work ''We've got to start early tomorrow, my dear,'' in the cartoon category.
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Last year Pope won one of the of the country's most valued media honours, the Australian Cartoonists' Association 2010 Cartoonist of the Year.
Oslo Davis, of The Age, Mark Knight of the Herald Sun and David Rowe, of The Australian Financial Review have been named as finalists for the Walkley prize.
Former Canberra Times journalist and Fairfax contributor Philip Dorling is in contention for best Print News Report for his story on Kevin Rudd based on US State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks. Sarah Ferguson's Four Corners documentary, A Bloody Business, which halted cattle exports to Indonesia for six months, was shortlisted in the television current affairs category.
The winners of the 2011 Walkley Awards will be announced in Brisbane on November 27.
There were about 1300 entries in this year's awards for the media industry, covering print, radio, television and photography as well as sports, business, investigative and feature reporting.