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Journos turn creative as economic woes hit newsrooms
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Despite a bleak outlook for the press, news executives from Asian publications say the COVID-19 crisis has prompted journalists to try new ways of practicing their craft in ways that may yet bring them closer to audiences and to economic survival.
All over Asia, journalists are losing their jobs as newsrooms struggle to stay afloat in the face of dwindling revenues, a trend going on for many years but hastened by lockdowns and health restrictions. This in turn has spurred digital creativity and innovation, in the form of, among others, recently retrenched journalists putting up their own online news portals or print reporters and editors experimenting with online news programs.