Congrats to Lizzie winners

I’ll confess to being more than a little proud of the journos at The AFR and MIS Magazine last Friday night at the annual Sun Microsystems IT Journalism Awards:

[Ben] Woodhead was a frequent visitor to the winner’s podium, collecting individual honours as Best Industry Journalist and the top gong of Best Journalist. While he collected those awards for his work at The Australian, he also represented Fairfax Business Media, who had another successful night with MIS Magazine winning Best Business Technology Title while the Financial Review won Best Industry Title. Paul Smith was also judged to be the Best Business Technology Journalist while Julian Bajkowski won Best News Journalist.

Also, congrats to all the other winners. I was one of the judges in the “Best New Journalist” category, and it was really interesting to read around 12 nominations from this year’s crop. The winner, Elissa Baxter, is a worthy winner, and it will be interesting to follow her career.

And beyond Elissa, there’s some incredible talent out there. In my humble opinion, it bodes well for the future of IT journalism in this country.