Nominate your journalism heroes and villains of 2011

It's almost Christmas, which as every journalist knows means it's almost time to start publishing endless end-of-year reviews. And after a momentous and divisive year in journalism, on Fleet Street and beyond, we want your help in drawing up a list of the journalism heroes and villains of 2011.

We need as many nominations as possible (note these are nominations, not votes - the editor's decision is final), and the key thing we're looking for here is originality. So if you can, please, think beyond phone hacking - and very local nominations are as welcome as national ones. Who's been the bad guy for journalists over the past 12 months? Who's made your life more difficult or given you a bad reputation? And who's defied the odds to do a decent job and made you still proud to be a journalist?

Email your ideas, nominations, citations and abuse to fleetstreetblues@hotmail.co.uk today. The idea is we'll credit those who contribute to the final list - but of course if you'd like to be anonymous, just let us know. News International employees can play too...