EFTM Founder and Editor Trevor Long views his win in the Helen Dancer Best Consumer Technology Journalist category at this year’s Samsung IT Journalism Awards as the culmination of years of hard work.  “I needed my entry to stand out from the sea of amazing written content that would have been submitted,” Long told Influencing.  “In reality, you could argue years of hard work went into the content I submitted because it all really was made possible by those efforts. My Interview with Tim Cook, Apple CEO, was the submission's highlight. As the only Australian to interview Tim, it was the obvious choice for these awards. “Likewise, my coverage of the Crowdstrike outage, I submitted my mainstream TV coverage of this, and noted that the Crowdstrike CEO spoke to just one journalist globally - me.” Long’s interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook, his interview with Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz, an interview with Apple Vice President of Marketing Bob Borchers, and his piece on

CommsDay Managing Editor Rohan Pearce has said his winning entries in the Best Telecommunications Journalist category at the 23rd Annual Samsung IT Journalism Awards were the articles he was most proud of.  Pearce took home the Lizzy last Friday night for his CommsDay articles regarding the Department of Home Affairs refusal to comment on ‘extreme’ telco power, sub com marine filings revealing potential sub-cable plans and the Department of Communications shelving of up to $26m in Regional Connectivity Program Grants.  Discussing is entries, the telco journalist said to Influencing, “I went back over the stories I wrote during 2024 and basically pared them down based on which ones I was particularly proud of, and with an eye for stories that I thought were significant enough that they should have been given more play elsewhere but generally weren’t. “For example, one of the stories I entered was about the government for the first time employing a power that even the enab

News18 India has strengthened its position as the leading Hindi news platform, achieving a record-breaking 845 million views on YouTube in March 2025—the highest in the News & Politics category worldwide, according to Playboard. With a 43 per cent lead over Aaj Tak, which recorded 589.4 million views, News18 India continues to dominate the segment. This milestone underscores the audience’s trust, making it the most-watched Hindi news channel for two consecutive years. The channel’s consistent performance during major events like the Delhi polls is driven by its robust programming and a distinguished team of anchors, including Kishore Ajwani, Amish Devgan, Rubika Liyaquat, Prateek Trivedi and Aman Chopra.

Union Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting, Dr. L. Murugan, held a virtual meeting with representatives from South Indian film associations to discuss their participation in the World Audio Visual & Entertainment Summit (WAVES), scheduled for May 1–5, 2025. The meeting focused on strengthening industry representation from the South, including technicians, producers, directors, and actors. Discussions also explored plans for dedicated pavilions and collaborations with regional production houses. Highlighting the significance of the summit, Dr. Murugan stated, "WAVES aims to bring together the entire media and entertainment ecosystem under one umbrella. It will be a platform to project the aspirations of India’s vibrant creative economy, aligning with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of India as a global content hub.

OpenAI has told the Delhi High Court that India's Copyright Act does not apply to the copyright infringement suit filed against it by news agency ANI, as the alleged actions took place outside Indian jurisdiction, according to Bar and Bench. Senior advocate Amit Sibal, representing OpenAI, argued that the company neither stores ANI’s data in India nor trains its language models within the country. “Any action that is claimed to be infringement must take place in the four corners of this country. If it doesn't take place in the four corners of this country, that particular action can’t be infringement,” Sibal told the court. ANI had previously alleged that OpenAI scraped its website and subscriber content to train ChatGPT, thereby violating its copyright and harming its market. OpenAI countered that its models do not store or recall specific content but learn from public data to understand language patterns. Sibal added that copyright protects the expression of ideas, not f