The Australian Financial Review and Darren Yates have taken home the Gold Lizzies at this year's Sun Microsystems IT Journalism Awards held last Thursday night at Star City Casino.


AFR took home Best Title after winning Best Business Technology Coverage and placing highly across the Best News, News Industry Coverage and even Best Personal Computing Coverage.


AFR journalists and contributors also fared well with Information editor Ben Woodhead winning back-to-back Best Technology Industry journalist awards while Mark Jones' The Scoop podcast won Best Audio Program. Stablemate MIS Australia won Best Business Magazine.


The Australian continued its domination of the News awards with Mahesh Sharma winning the Cass Warneminde Best News Journalist trophy and The Australian accumulating enough points to win Best News Title. News Limited stablemate News.com.au/technology took home the prize of Best Website.


Good Game won Best Video Production for the second year in a row, Australian 360 was given Best Gaming Coverage and Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw was Best Gaming Journalist.


Meanwhile, Darren Yates (PICTURED) was the winner of Best Reviewer and Best Technical Journalist, leading to his overall ranking as Best Journalist. This year's Gold Lizzie makes Yates the first multiple winner of the award.


CHOICE Computer also had a good night winning winning Best Consumer Magazine while journalist Rosalyn Page won Best Consumer Technology Journalist.


Simon Sharwood was a popular winner of Best Business Technology journalist, David Braue won another Best Columnist Award and Nett's Jonathon Crossfield was the winner of the Alicia Camphuisen Best New Journalist Award. PC Authority was the winner of Best Personal Computing coverage.


Meanwhile, Pru Quinlan was the winner of the inaugural David Hellaby Best PR Professional Award.


More pictures and coverage to follow.


The complete list of winners were:


Best Title
The Australian Financial Review


Best Journalist
Darren Yates


Best News Journalist
Mahesh Sharma


Best News Title
The Australian


Best Business Magazine
MIS Australia
Highly commended - Australian Anthill


Best Consumer Magazine
CHOICE Computer
Highly commended - Popular Science


Best Media Website
News.com.au/Technology
Highly commended - PC Authority Online


Best Audio Program
The Scoop
Highly Commended - Risky Business


Best Video Production
Good Game
Highly Commended - CHOICE Computer and CyberShack


Best Gaming Coverage
Australian 360


Best Industry Coverage
ARN
Highly commended - The Australian Financial Review


Best Business Technology Coverage
The Australian Financial Review
Highly commended - The Australian


Best Personal Technology Coverage
PC Authority (Print)
Highly commended - Atomic


Best New Journalist
Jonathan Crossfield


Best Gaming Journalist
Ben Croshaw
Highly commended - Maurice Branscombe


Best Business Technology Journalist
Simon Sharwood


Best Technology Industry Journalist
Ben Woodhead
Highly commended - Angus Kidman


Best Consumer Technology Journalist
Rosalyn Page
Highly commended - Angus Kidman


Best Columnist
David Braue
Highly Commended - Simon Sharwood


Best Reviewer
Darren Yates


Best Technical Journalist
Darren Yates
Highly Commended - Ashton Mills


Best PR Professional
Pru Quinlan