The ABC’s Greek journalist Mario Christodoulou with Deb  Masters and Fairfax Media’s Adele Ferguson have jointly won Australian journalism’s highest award, the Gold Walkley, for a Four Corners investigation of the Commonwealth Bank.

The judges said the Banking Bad program had elevated business journalism by capturing the human side of poor financial advice from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), through dogged investigation.

The program examined the «profit at all costs» sales culture within the bank’s financial planning division and revealed how customers took on both the bank and the corporate regulator.

Source: Walkley Awards