ACYD alumna Sue-Lin Wong wins 2025 Lowy Institute Media Award

The 2025 Lowy Institute Media Award was presented to 2013 ACYD Alumna Sue-Lin Wong for her work hosting the podcast series ‘Scam Inc.’ for The Economist. The eight-part series takes a deep dive into the multi-billion dollar, sophisticated, and international industry of online scams.

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About the Award

Awarded annually to Australian journalists, the Lowy Institute Media Award recognises individuals who have ‘deepened the knowledge, or shaped the discussion, of international policy issues in our country’ through either a series of reports or a single piece of commentary or reporting.

Each work is assessed on a number of award criteria - from the quality and originalty of content, to the degree of influence to which the work has informed or shaped discourse of international policy. This year’s judging panel included The Australian Journalist Paul Kelly, ABC Journalist Leigh Sales, and Nine’s A Current Affair host Allison Langdon.

About the Recipient

Graduating from the Australian National University with dual degrees in Law and Asian Studies, Sue-Lin Wong has an extensive career in journalism, working with Reuters News Agency, the Financial Times as the South China Correspondent and most recently, as the Asia Correspondent at The Economist, after previous roles as the China and South-East Asia Correspondent. Across her career, Sue-Lin has been honoured with numerous other international journalism prizes, and was also the co-creator and host of ‘The Prince’, another long-form narrative podcast that was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 best podcasts of all time.

ACYD alumna Katrie Low’s digital career

2010 ACYD Alumna Katrie Low was featured in the CSIRO’s career spotlight series My Digital Career. Aimed at informing students and teachers about new and emerging career fields within a digital technology space, the series highlights real-life stories of individuals working in digital roles, discussing the importance of their work, and what lead them to their roles.

Katrie Low is an urban explorer and civil engineer who explores the world, aiming to make cities more sustainable and affordable. This video explores her passions for creating more liveable cities, and explores how she is working to explore urban developments, sharing information and making housing more accessible and affordable.

Watch the feature here and learn how Katrie works to make cities more sustainable: https://www.csiro.au/en/education/resource-library/my-digital-career/katrie-lowe

Katrie Low launched the Urban CurioCity project in 2017 and has travelled internationally to live and research how cities are addressing the five big urban challenges: Density, Affordability, Liveability, Sustainability and Technology. Her findings are documented on her website.

Before this, Katrie was a civil engineer for AECOM and has been involved in the delivery of major infrastructure master planning projects across Australia and Hong Kong for private and government organizations such as Sydney Airport, Hong Kong Drainage Services Department, Sydney Water and Urban Growth NSW.

Katrie is a Chartered Professional Engineer and graduated from the University of Technology Sydney with Bachelor degrees in Engineering, Arts in International Studies and a Diploma of Engineering Practice, Civil Environmental Engineering. Her studies include an independent research project at Zhejiang University and an Engineering Undergraduate Thesis at Tsinghua University.