Journalism.co.uk will be at the Paul Foot Award 2010 tonight, and will endeavour to cover the result on @journalism_live and @journalismnews.

This year’s shortlist for the investigative journalism award is:

• Jonathan Calvert and Clare Newell (Sunday Times) – on MPs and peers seeking cash for influence
• David Cohen (Evening Standard) – on the plight of the poor in London
• Nick Davies (Guardian) – on phone-hacking at the News of the World
• Linda Geddes (New Scientist) – on evidence that DNA tests are not always accurately interpreted
• Eamonn McCann (Irish Times, Belfast Newsletter, Guardian) – on the cover-up of the British army’s actions on Bloody Sunday
• Clare Sambrook (numerous publications) – on the detention of asylum seekers’ children