Craig ‘Huggy’ Huggins is stepping away from his long-running Mornings show on GOLD 104.3 to take over Breakfast at Cruise 1323 in Adelaide, according to Radio Info.  After more than three decades with GOLD and nearly two decades hosting Afternoons on Cruise, Huggy will now front the Adelaide station’s Breakfast slot starting 28 April. He will also continue his Afternoon Drive role on 96FM Perth. GOLD 104.3’s revised weekday lineup will take effect from 14 April, with Dave 'Higgo' Higgins on Mornings, Toni Tenaglia on Afternoons, and Steve Fitton moving to Drive. Huggy’s final GOLD show airs on 11 April, though he’ll remain on-call as a fill-in presenter. Looking back on his time in Melbourne, Huggy said, “It’s been a privilege to work at GOLD for so many years. I’ll miss Melbourne, but I’m excited for this next chapter at Cruise 1323.” GOLD Network Head Sue Carter added that his new role in Adelaide is a “perfect fit,” thanking him for his years of dedic

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 en