Journalists from the Middleton Guardian and Sunday Herald are among those to have been shortlisted for a prestigious award for investigative and campaigning journalism.

Jeni Harvey, from the Middleton Guardian, and Liam McDougall, who works for the Sunday Herald in Glasgow, have been nominated for the Paul Foot Award, organised by Private Eye and The Guardian.

Both are guaranteed to pick up at least £1,000 at a ceremony later this month, with the overall winner being awarded £5,000 and six runners-up receiving £1,000 each.

The award was set up in memory of former Private Eye, Daily Mirror and Guardian journalist Paul Foot, who was known for his left-wing politics and campaigns against miscarriages of justice. He died in 2004 aged 66.

The other nominees are Henry Porter from The Observer; David Harrison from the Sunday Telegraph; Stephen Gray from The Guardian/New Statesman; Jonathan Calvert, Gareth Walsh, Claire Newell and John Follain from The Sunday Times; and Tony Collins from Computer Weekly.

The winner will be announced during a ceremony at the Courthouse Hotel in London on October 16.

The judges for the awards are Richard Stott (Chair) Bill Haggerty, Clare Fermont, Richard Ingrams, Jeremy Dear, Ian Hislop and Alan Rusbridger.

The award is in its second year. The inaugural award went to John Sweeney of The Daily Mail.