I have to mention that one of the best parts of studying at Sciences Po is that we get to attend an amazing range of public lectures. Thanks to the central location of the university and of course to its prestige, we are blessed with the access to some of the most influential people in the world. Matthew Winkler, the Editor-In-Chief of Bloomberg News paid a visit to our campus on the 2 September.

It was the inaugural lecture for the School of Journalism here at the university. Starting as a journalist for the Wall Street Journal back in the late 1980s, Winkler gave a vivid account of how Bloomberg came to be what it is today and how he got involved with the business.  From the phone call which he received from Michael Bloomberg in 1990, asking him what it takes to get in the news business, the legal…