The Age has picked up 37 finalist nominations at the Quill Awards for Excellence in Victorian Journalism, across 20 categories, more than any other news outlet.
The Melbourne Press Club named the finalists on Thursday, including investigative reporters Adele Ferguson and team Nick McKenzie and Richard Baker for the prestigious Graham Perkin Australian journalist of the year award.
Ferguson has been nominated for her investigations into business scandals, including in the retirement village sector, while Baker and McKenzie got the nod for their reporting on China's influence over Australian politics.
Adele Ferguson' nominated for a prestigious Graham Perkin award.
Chief sports writer Greg Baum is a finalists for the Harry Gordon Australian sports journalist of the year award.
"The high number of nominations across so many categories demonstrates once again the talent and versatility of our journalists at The Age," The Age editor Alex Lavelle said.
"We are committed to bringing our readers top quality, original journalism rather than commoditised news and it is great to see that recognised by the Quills."
The Age has dominated the artwork category, picking up all four nominations, and has taken three out of four of the cartoon nominations, including one for the late Ron Tandberg.
The Age Newsroom Team is a finalist for its breaking news coverage of the Bourke Street tragedy.
Ferguson and Mario Christodoulou are in the running for best business feature, while teams Ferguson and Sarah Danckert and Royce Millar and Ben Schneiders could win for best business news.
McKenzie and Baker are in the 'coverage of an issue' category twice and, together with James Massola and Fergus Hunter, are nominated for the Grant Hattam Quill for Investigative Journalism.
Team Ferguson and Danckert are also in the running for the Grant Hattam Quill.
Michael Bachelard and Kate Geraghty have been nominated for feature writing for their interactive Surviving Islamic State: Stories from Mosul. The Age Multimedia Team have been nominated for innovation in journalism for the same piece.
The winners will be announced at a dinner at Melbourne's Crown Palladium on Friday, March 16.
The full list of the Fairfax finalists for the Quills:
ARTWORK
Jamie Brown, The Sunday Age, Generation game
Andrew Dyson, The Age, Tech Wreck
Richard Giliberto, The Saturday Age, Chinese Whispers
Jim Pavlidis, The Sunday Age, Dustin Martin
BREAKING NEWS COVERAGE
The Age Newsroom Team, The Age, Bourke Street tragedy
BUSINESS FEATURE
Adele Ferguson & Mario Christodoulou, The Age, Domino's Pizza Scandal
BUSINESS NEWS
Adele Ferguson & Sarah Danckert, The Age, Crumbs
Royce Millar & Ben Schneiders, The Age, A Matter of Trust
CARTOON
Matt Golding, The Sunday Age, We Knew
Jim Pavlidis, The Age, Paris Climate Accord
Ron Tandberg, The Age, The Big C
COVERAGE OF AN ISSUE OR EVENT
The Fairfax Media & ABC Team, ABC Four Corners & The Age, China's influence - Power and Payments
Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker & Richard Willingham, The Age & ABC TV, The Lobster with a Mobster scandal
FEATURE WRITING
Michael Bachelard & Kate Geraghty, Fairfax Media, Surviving Islamic State: Stories from Mosul
Emily Woods, The Sunday Age, The young Moomba rioters: Restoring Faith in Justice
FEATURES PHOTOGRAPH
Eddie Jim, The Age, Remembrance Day
Justin McManus, The Age, Repatriation of Mungo Man
THE GRANT HATTAM QUILL FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
Adele Ferguson, Sarah Danckert & Klaus Toft, The Age & ABC Four Corners, The Crook, the Police and the Retirement Village
Nick McKenzie, James Massola, Richard Baker & Fergus Hunter, Fairfax Media, Chinese influence and Dastyari's fall
INNOVATION IN JOURNALISM
The Age Multimedia Team, The Age, Surviving IS: Stories from Mosul
The Age Persona Project Team, theage.com.au, The Persona Project
THE KEITH DUNSTAN QUILL FOR COMMENTARY
Peter Martin, The Age, That sucking sound is us being robbed of our gas
NEWS PHOTOGRAPH
Eddie Jim, The Age, Bourke Street gunman
NEWS REPORT IN WRITING
Josh Gordon, Richard Willingham & Benjamin Preiss, The Age, Speaker of the Houses
Miki Perkins, Fairfax Media, Rape: How a family coped with their teenage daughter's ordeal
THE RACV TRANSPORT QUILL
Clay Lucas, The Age, Toll road secrecy bid
Benjamin Preiss & Craig Butt, The Age, 70% of toll road fines go unpaid
SPORTS FEATURE
Greg Baum, The Age, Written in the stars
Konrad Marshall, Good Weekend magazine, Second Serve
SPORTS NEWS
Michael Bachelard & Nick McKenzie, Fairfax Media, AOC bullying scandal
Nino Bucci, Fairfax Media, Australian Open boys champion charged with match fixing
THE TAC TOWARDS ZERO QUILL FOR ROAD SAFETY REPORTING
Ebony Bowden, The Age, Fury Roads: Melbourne's road rage epidemic
Adam Carey, The Sunday Age, How 41 lives could have been saved
TV/VIDEO FEATURE (LONG FORM)
Adele Ferguson, Klaus Toft & Sarah Danckert, ABC Four Corners & The Age, Bleed Them Dry Until They Die
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