Meet the Reviews.org team

Introducing our Australian team of reviewers and researchers.
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Who are we?

At Reviews.org, we test the products and services that connect your home to your life, so you can answer not only if something is “good” before you buy it, but if it’s good for you.

We’re a team of experts that tell it like it is when it comes to connected home services and products. 

What’s a connected home, you ask? Well . . . it’s your home if you have any of these services: TV (or Streaming!), Internet, a mobile plan, a smart speaker, or even an Xbox or PlayStation console, you’re juggling more than a few connected devices. We want to let you know which devices are best, but also which services will support your ever-growing need for fast and reliable broadband.

Why our content is worth your time

The truth is, we provide information that other reviewers don’t. We put the products and services we review through rigorous stress testing to find the breaking point. We seek to answer these main questions:

What's the breaking point?

  • What or how much can this product/service handle at its peak?
  • How long before the quality dips?

Are you getting what you paid for?

  • Does the product/service perform as advertised both initially and over time?
  • Does the performance warrant the price?

How does it connect with the rest of my home services?

  • Does the product or service integrate with other products and services that I’m already (or could be) using?
  • What effect will this product or service on me if I add it to my current connected home ecosystem?

Is it good, though?

All we really want to know before we spend money is whether or not we’ll get a good return for our hard-earned cash. The underlying question in every consumer’s mind before they buy something: Is it good, though?

With these questions, we place the services and products we review into a comparative space. We answer whether the product is “good” in a vacuum (based on its own advertised criteria) AND whether it’s “good” compared to its competition.

Lucky for you, we’ve done the same stress testing on every product and service we review to confidently make this call.😉

How do we answer these questions?

We find that one size rarely fits all. That’s why we dig in and unearth how particular products and services perform under a variety of situations and stress tests.

When reviewing a series of products, we develop bulletproof criteria to compare and test against. Not every product makes the cut. If a device or service doesn’t meet a bare minimum requirement in an important category, is misleading, or, at worst, poses a potential health and safety risk, you won’t see it in our recommendations.

We use first-hand experience where possible to inform our reviews, but we also rely on data provided by trusted consumer advocate sources, such as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), and our friends over at WhistleOut, to weigh up a service’s value and reliability.

When you see a star-rating on Reviews.org Australia, you can be confident that the result speaks to hours upon hours of research, hands-on experience, and data analysis. We’re almost embarrassed to say, we love a dense spreadsheet almost as much as playing around with the latest and greatest tech.

It’s not all 1s and 0s, though. Some things we write about, like the best movies streaming on Netflix, can’t be solved with an equation. For those categories, we rely on the burning passion and years of experience that our astute editorial team brings to the table.

Meet our experts

Real talk. Our experts are our cheat code. You think we’d ask you to trust our recommendations without having the best tech experts in the industry leading the charge? We didn’t think so, either. Reviews.org experts leverage years of industry expertise to carefully craft, execute, and report on our various stress tests. Check ‘em out.

Reviews.org Australia team

Editorial and research

Brodie Fogg
Brodie Fogg
Editorial Lead

Brodie Fogg is the Australian editorial lead at Reviews.org. He has covered consumer tech, telecommunications, video games, streaming and entertainment for over five years at websites like WhistleOut and Finder and can be found sharing streaming recommendations at 7NEWS every month.

brodie@reviews.org

Fergus Halliday
Fergus Halliday
Digital Content Editor

Fergus Halliday is a journalist and editor for Reviews.org. He’s written about technology, telecommunications, gaming and more for over a decade. He got his start writing in high school and began his full-time career as the Editor of PC World Australia.

Fergus has made the MCV 30 Under 30 list, been a finalist for seven categories at the IT Journalism Awards and won Most Controversial Writer at the 2022 Consensus Awards. He has been published in Gizmodo, Kotaku, GamesHub, Press Start, Screen Rant, Superjump, Nestegg and more.


🏆 Most Controversial Writer, Consensus Awards - 2022, Seven-time finalist, The Australian IT Journalism Awards

fergus@reviews.org

Anula Wiwatowska

Anula Wiwatowska

Content and Social Media Editor

Anula is the Content and Social Media Editor within the Reviews.org extended universe. Working in the tech space since 2020, she covers phone and internet plans, gadgets, smart devices, and the intersection of technology and culture.

Anula was a finalist for Best Feature Writer at the 2022 Consensus Awards, and an eight time finalist across categories at the IT Journalism Awards. Her work contributed to WhistleOut's Best Consumer Coverage win in 2023.


🏆Best Feature Writer Finalist, Consensus Awards - 2022, Best Consumer Tech Coverage, The Australian IT Journalism Awards - 2023

anula@reviews.org

Adam Smith

Adam Smith

Senior Managing Editor

Adam Smith has been a journalist for the past 16 years, writing on subjects as varied as music, entertainment, finance and technology.


🏆 Once chugged a 1.5L water bottle of egg nog live on the We Review Stuff podcast

adam.smith@whistleout.com

Behind the scenes

Joe Hanlon
Joe Hanlon
Managing Editor

Joe has been reviewing tech and gadgets for over a decade having worked at CNET, TechRadar and telco comparison site WhistleOut.

Jacqui Dent
Jacqui Dent
Editorial Content Strategist

Jacqui Dent is a Content Strategist at Reviews.org Australia, where she manages the team of experts’ mobile and broadband coverage. Over her ten-year career she has worked to provide informed advice to the public, first for organisations such as the NSW Writer’s Centre and the Australian Society of Authors, and now in the world of consumer tech with WhistleOut and Reviews.org.

Kate Reynolds

Kate Reynolds

Outreach Specialist

Kate Reynolds is a writer who's at her happiest when there's haloumi on the brunch menu and a dog to give pats to. She's worked as a travel writer, journalist, theatre reviewer, broadcaster and radio creative, and spends her weekends with as much of the aforementioned haloumi and dogs as possible.

She writes on Cammeraygal and Wangal land.

Contributors and topic specialists

Alex Choros

Alex Choros

Group Reviews Editor

Alex Choros is the Group Reviews Editor for Clearlink Australia's local websites - Reviews.org, Safewise, and WhistleOut - and the Managing Editor for WhistleOut Australia. He's been writing about consumer technology for over eight years and is an expert on the Australian telco sector, to the point where he knows far too many phone and internet plans by heart. He also contributes to Gizmodo and Lifehacker, and makes regular appearances on 2GB. Outside of tech, Alex loves long hikes, red wine, and death metal.

Georgia Dixon

Georgia Dixon

Digital Content Editor

Georgia Dixon has over seven years' experience writing about all things tech, entertainment and lifestyle, with bylines in TechLife magazine, 7NEWS and Stuff.co.nz. In her spare time, you'll find her playing games and daydreaming about good food, wine, and dogs.

Nathan Lawrence

Nathan Lawrence

Editor-at-large

Nathan Lawrence has been banging out passionate tech and gaming words for more than 11 years. These days, you can find his work on outlets like IGN, STACK, Fandom, Red Bull and AusGamers. Nathan adores PC gaming and the proof of his first-person-shooter prowess is at the top of a Battlefield V scoreboard.