He (or she) would be pro-active, approachable, knowledgeable and good company for journalists, without being sycophantic to them.

ECONOMIST: European politics

Journalists throw in terms like tobashi to sound knowledgeable.

FORBES: The Olympus Fraud Dissected

But like many journalists I always enjoyed talking to him, because he was extremely knowledgeable, decent and fair, and a shrewd observer of Britain's strange relationship with Europe.

ECONOMIST: European politics