WhistleOut Singapore’s and former Reviews.Org and SafeWise Australia journalist Hannah Geremia has said she is “chuffed” with her win in the Alicia Camphuizen Best New Journalist category at the 23rd Annual Samsung Australian IT Journalism Awards.  “I’m thankful and blessed to work at a place as joyful as WhistleOut/Reviews.org/SafeWise,” Geremia told Influencing, “Georgia Dixon, my editor, is always supportive of my ideas and consistently pushes me to become a better writer.  “Every day, I’m inspired by the exceptional work my colleagues do, as well as that of past Lizzies winners. The quality of entries is always high, and I feel so honoured to have been awarded such an accolade.”  Geremia went to great length to detail her winning entries which included pieces titled, “Flipper Zero: The Tamagotchi lookalike that can hack your Wi-Fi”, “How can technology help cure loneliness in seniors?”, “Viral wellness trends and health misinformation on TikTok

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

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.