CNET’s Jackson Ryan and the team from The Australian Financial Review have taken top honours at the 20th Annual Samsung Australian IT Journalism Awards.
Supported by Samsung, Enex TestLab, Watterson Marketing Communications, Amazon Web Services, Atlassian, Optus and Apptio, this year’s Awards at Luna Park were attended by 300 individuals from the wider journalism, public relations and technology communities.
Speaking on the night as Best Journalist, Jackson Ryan said “genuinely The Lizzies have always been something that I’ve held quite dear so it’s incredible to be up here”, thanking his editor Mark Serrels and CNET for their support.
Accepting the Gold Lizzie for Best Title, The Australian Financial Review’s Paul Smith said “It means a lot because there is so much good journalism done and so many stories that are based around the very broad concept of technology. Technology is everything now. Technology is in every part of the newspaper that we all work for, and every facet of life.”
The winners are listed below in order of presentation, alongside those Highly Commended for their entries.
Alicia Camphuisen Best New Journalist
Velvet-Belle Templeman
HC: Joseph Lam, Tobias Venus
Best Gaming Journalist
Jackson Ryan
HC: Chris Button
Best Gaming Coverage
Gameplay
HC: Byteside, DigitallyDownloaded.net
Best Security Journalist
Jeremy Kirk
HC: David Braue, Patrick Gray
Best Technical Journalist
Alex Walker
HC: Angharad Yeo
Paul Zucker Best Technology Industry Journalist
Yolanda Redrup
HC: Paul Smith. David Swan
Best Reviewer
Alex Kidman
HC: Alex Walker, Leigh :) Stark
Helen Dancer Best Consumer Technology Journalist
Jackson Ryan
HC: Josh Taylor, Daniel Van Boom
Best Consumer Technology Coverage
NITV
HC: Pickr, The Australian
Pioneer of IT Media
Stuart Corner
Best Business Coverage
Communications Day
HC: The Australian Financial Review, Digital Nation Australia
John Costello Best Business Technology Journalist
David Swan
HC: Rae Johnston, Jessica Sier
Best News Coverage
The Australian Financial Review
HC: The Australian
Graeme Philipson Best Columnist
Simon Sharwood
HC: Paul Smith, Amanda Yeo
Cass Warneminde Best News Journalist
Josh Taylor
HC: David Braue
Best Independent Media
Byteside
HC: Pickr, SIFTER
Best Telecommunications Journalist
Rohan Pearce
HC: Paul Smith
Best Technology Issues Journalist
Daniel Van Boom
HC: Josh Taylor
Best Program
SBS (Elise Potaka, Calliste Weitenberg, David Ma, Patrick Forrest)
HC: Tech Finder
David Hellaby Best Media Relations
Doug Johns, Power Up PR
HC: Salvatore Di Muccio, Well Above
Best Corporate Content
Nate Cochrane
HC: William Maher, The Register, Nick Ross
Best Journalist
Jackson Ryan
Best Title
The Australian Financial Review