How can you adapt to changing newsroom environments?

Understand your objectives, roles , and values as well as that of work mates then integrate it into the overall structure while aligning yourself with the expertise of other team members .

Knowing your audience should be one of the foundations: the digital space allows for pretty detailed data and metrics so understanding if your readership or audience is skewed in a certain way and why is of primary importance. Furthermore, even if you are a national or local publication/media, the mere fact of being online provides a defect international audience, whether that is meant or not. Therefore a laser focus on language, nuances and cultural aspects can no longer be avoided. Think about where your readers are, where your language is spoken in the world and how local idiomatic expressions might land over there.

Newsrooms have traditionally been managed by men with a male audience in mind. Women’s experiences, gender perspectives of a story were often not taken in consideration. Today it is absolutely necessary to resonate with an audience that is as diverse as society and multiple perspectives must be embraced and considered. It starts by having a balanced editorial team and the culture to evaluate the gender implication of every story, in every angle. Inclusive Language is still much debated in gendered languages environments but it is an essential tool to undo the androcentric prism and allow for women and underrepresented identities to exist in the texts that vehiculate the news.

A typical example would be how to harness AI and the likes of ChatGPT for consistent use of #inclusivelanguage. The tool might nor be able yet to revert a whole text in an inclusive form, but if you can articulate precise questions to it on specific sentences, it can help you gain time finding rapidly gender neutral formulas available in your language.

I am afraid that given the increasing violence and polarisation of society, the role of the journalist will soon be affected psychologically like the roles of moderators on social media platforms - obliged to be exposed to horrific content all day, with devastating consequences. If a solution is not found to balance the negative / positive ratio of news, in the future this sis a job that will be exercised for limited period of times.