Rupert Walker, associate editor at FinanceAsia, has won an institutional journalism award for his work on regulation and critiques of public figures such as Nobel Prize economics winner Joseph Stiglitz.
The five independent judges at the inaugural State Street Press Awards Asia Pacific gave Walker the award for Best Editorial Comment. One of his most popular opinion pieces this year drew on the similarities between professional cycling and the financial industry namely, that both share a damaging code of silence.
The article also included his personal experience as a whistleblower. Walker recalled how a comment to the press about the Ponzi-type features of split-capital investment...