The Age has dominated the shortlist for Victoria's most prestigious journalism awards, receiving more nominations than any other news organisation.
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Age journalists have received 31 nominations across the 26 Melbourne Press Club Quill award categories, ahead of 21 for the ABC and 21 for the Herald Sun.
Investigative reporters Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie have been shortlisted in three categories, including the Grant Hattam Quill for Investigative Journalism.
Adele Ferguson and Ruth Williams have been shortlisted for Best Business Story, with Adele Ferguson receiving a second shortlisting in that category for her Four Corners collaboration investigating the Commonwealth Bank.
And three Age columnists - Jake Niall, John Silvester and Adele Ferguson - have been shortlisted for the Keith Dunstan Award for Best Columnist or Blogger, along with The Guardian's Gay Alcorn.
John Silvester and Adele Ferguson are also nominated for Australia's most prestigious journalism prize, the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award,
The award, which comes with $20,000 prize money, was named after legendary Age editor Graham Perkin and has previously been awarded to leading journalists including Laurie Oakes, Michael Gordon and Michelle Grattan.
The Age editor-in-chief Andrew Holden said he was delighted with both the number and range of finalists in the Quills.
"It demonstrates yet again that The Age has the best newsroom in the country," he said.
"We are very proud to be the home of the current Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year in Caroline Wilson and the current Gold Walkley winner in Adele Ferguson."
Last year The Age was awarded six Quill awards, as well as the Graham Perkin award.
The winners will be announced at the Melbourne Press Club's Quill Awards dinner on March 20.
