Sharanjit, you're considered one of Singapore's most celebrated journalists. There's a lot of discourse nowadays about the value of our profession and the merits of working in it. Do you feel it's truly dying or are people simply no longer seeing its worth?
Journalism's hardly a dying profession… in fact, it's more alive than ever! Journalists now have to contribute to so many different platforms, some of which didn't even exist 25 years ago when I started in the industry. You have the news apps, online sites, social media, podcasts and other digital platforms like TikTok that now are putting out journalistic content. If you're [a] good journalist, you should be able to contribute to all of them as I did at the BBC, where I reported for television [and] radio, wrote for the online site and produced digital videos for the BBC app. There's so much to do and it will
