2003 Consensus IT Writers Awards
Award Results

Australia's best IT journalists and publications recognized in the 2003 Consensus IT Writers Awards. Thank you to everyone that took part this year and look forward to celebrating the tenth anniversary with you in 2004.

The photo shows Bennett Ring receiving the Award for Best Technical Writer from Julian Day, Managing Director of Consensus Awards.

 The Kester Cranswick Lifetime Achievement Award

Winners and Finalists

Helen Dancer

This award celebrates the life and career of a very special person in information technology journalism, one who made a tremendous impact on all who met and knew her.

Helen Dancer began writing about technology long before it became a field for the trendy. She knew the issues and wrote about them -- and the people involved in them -- with flair, passion, clarity and great understanding, for a wide range of titles, publishing houses and audiences. 

She was always a true professional. Nobody did it better. Her words always fitted and were delivered spot on time, as many an editor will attest.

But she was much more than a proficient and gifted technological writer. She had warmth and wit and a canny commonsense that was universally engaging. She was a wonderful mentor to the many young journalists entering the trade. And she faced life with enormous courage, never allowing a long and debilitating illness to get between her and her work or her and her many friends.

All of us who knew, respected and loved Helen miss her deeply. It is most fitting that this award should be her memorial.

David Frith on behalf of the judging panel

Most Controversial

Most Entertaining

Best Feature

Best News

Best Investigative

Best Technical

Best Headline

Best Editor

Best Web-site

Select a category to view the list of winners and finalists

Select the title to view the submitted article

Results 2003

Most Controversial

Winner

Missing the Train 
David Braue

Finalist

E-Terrorism: An online war? 
Jeanne-Vida Douglas

Finalist

The Final Countdown 
William Maher

Most Entertaining

Winner

Virtual sex -- the future is unreal 
Doc Spooge

Finalist

What's the problem? 
Darren Ellis

Finalist

Pointless - that's the point 
Tim Dean

Best Feature

Winner

Made in India
Keith Power

Finalist

Hacking: The Big Bucks Industry 
William Maher

Finalist

Heated debate on free speech

Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Best News

Winner

Feds force multimillion dollar upgrade 
Lauren Thomsen-Moore

Finalist

Fischer: Alston most tech savvy of the Feds 
Keith Power

Finalist

Doing the dollars on development 
Helen Han

Best Investigative

Winner

XPOSURE: The New Wild West 
Siobhan Chapman

Finalist

US war on sharerists 
Garth Montgomery

Finalist

Something in the Air 
Justin Kranzl

Best Technical

Winner

H2H – Do believe the Hype(r-Threading) 
Bennett Ring

Finalist

Big Blue Sky 
Fiona Angus

Finalist

Web services: Messiah or mirage? 
David Braue

Best Headline

Winner

Building a better louse trap
David Braue 
September 2002
Technology & Business

Link 

Highly Commended

Worm out of virus management 
Natalie Hambly
November 2002
Technology & Business magazine

Link 

Finalist

Get thee behind me, SATA
Darren Ellis
October 2002
PC Authority

Finalist

The Bone Collector
Aidan Ormond
September 2002
APC Magazine

Best Editor

Winner

David Crowe
Australian Financial Review

Highly Commended

Stuart Kennedy
The Australian

Highly Commended

Emma Geary
MIS Magazine

Finalist

Tim Dean
PC Authority

Best Web-site

Winner

www.whirlpool.net.au 

Highly Commended

http://www.zdnet.com.au 

Highly Commended

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