Here's how you can cultivate resilience and adaptability to thrive in a rapidly changing industry.

The media scene is undergoing rapid changes with technology driving a good part of news and content creation and consumption. Internet, mobile phone and AI have been the key drivers of this change. From print the information consumption is moving to digital and audio. Podcasts, short video formats and online portal are proliferating. Therefore embracing change and adapting to newer demands of audiences is the key for Journalists to stay relevant. It would be prudent to learn the newer skills of communication too. Even in news/content creation there is a need to understand the younger and newer consumers and their interests. It’s a very, very challenging situation indeed.

It is very crucial and constructive to capacity building to be open to new trends in a particular industry and journalism is not left out. Therefore, it is good for creative people especially creative professionals to embrace new technologies and trends that will help them improve their work and to also meet targets and deadlines.

Like the practise of Journalism demands highlighting new and less or unknown aspects the same will apply to succeeding as a Journalist/Communicator in the long run. Change is the most constant thing. From just the printed newspaper the news consumption has broadened to audio, video, digital and. From newspapers online to news portals, we have come a long way. The mobile phone has converged many gadgets into one. Use of data, lots of visuals and audio have become commonplace. It would be good to learn how to operate in these platforms and also to cater to the interests of the target audiences.

To be a reasonably successful Journalist one needs to have solid contacts and a good network of professional and personal friends. In addition to building contacts through coverage of official events, press meets and field visits it would be advantageous to expand the network by meeting people in social and cultural gatherings where they are more relaxed in comparison to official settings. The network should be diverse so that the information and views are different and in depth. This will help in better understanding of the subjects that you write or comment as a Journalist. The network has to be global in the contemporary times.

In addition to the all above given insights particularly learning and self reflection through stand alone spirit with a genuine intent to lead is the way forward. It is the era of multi valance and it has become imperative not to merely stay top of everything but also have a balanced and ethically pronounced approach that creates an inclusive, grow oriented and healthy atmosphere driven by dialogue, transparency and the spirit of an enabler !