The scoop of the century, heralded in media folklore as investigative journalism at its greatest, was landed by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the early 1970s. They were only in their 20s. Their story, built around the political intrigue, burglaries and bugging of ‘The Watergate Scandal’, led to 40 convictions and…

A rabbit in the headlights (read, ‘consumed by a fear of the stage’); a peacock on show (‘all bluster and BS’); or the lion in the jungle (‘confident, with a strong grasp of the facts and at ease with the setting’)? Which one are you? Which one you would rather be is a given. Attaining…

“There is no way I’m speaking to the media. It’s too risky.” In my 20 years with Bloomberg, I must have heard, and overheard, that same mantra countless times. At the 50th annual World Economic Forum, which kicks off today in Davos, Switzerland, it will become a chorus line. It may be risky, but not…