Recent La Trobe journalism graduate, Rania Spooner is a finalist for this year’s Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the Year award.

Rania is a finalist in the Print news category for her work at The Kalgoorlie Miner, a daily newspaper owned by West Australian Newspapers. It is situated in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, in the state’s Goldfields region.

Winners for each category will be announced on Tuesday, June 21 in Sydney, along with the all-round winner for the 2011 Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the Year.

We wish Rania the best of luck.

For the full list of finalists go to: http://www.walkleys.com/news/1260/