If you’re looking to build a future in the media industry, these are the hottest career options in media available. These careers are greatly sought after, pay well and the demand is ever-increasing.

#1. Graphic Designer

Graphic designers create visual concepts, using computer software or by hand, to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, and captivate consumers.

Required Skills: • Sound knowledge about Photoshop and

CorelDraw.• Imagination power with creative mindset

#2. Public Relations – PR specialist develops and maintains relations of the client with organizations, newspapers, NGO’s and advertising firms.

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Required Skills –

• excellent communication skills • Good networking skills • good email drafting skills.

#3. Advertisers – Advertising is the art of conveying a message to the masses. Advertising, promotions, and marketing managers plan programs to generate interest in a product or service.

Required Skills – • Strong knowledge about both online and

offline marketing. • Coordinating skills, • Ability to brainstorm the latest trends and

craft eye-catching campaigns.

#4. Film making – Film making involves documentaries, short films, feature films, ads, commercial films and videos for TV.

Skills Required – • Excellent teamwork• Knowledge of the film industry

equipment.• Creative mindset

#5. Social Media Manager – A social media manager has to manage a brand’s profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest to name a few.

Skills Required – • The ability to test new concepts, analyze the

results and change the campaign accordingly. • highly flexible, • Great analytics skills • Ability to work in a team

#6. Journalist – A career in journalism involves probing, analyzing and reporting local and global events, happenings and trends. A career in offline (print) journalism includes newspapers, magazines, tabloids, books and journals. Online journalism means creating content for internet, TV and radio.

Skills Required – A journalist has to be

• inquisitive, alert and adaptive to challenging situations.

• good communication skills • should have qualities such as patience,

perseverance

#7. Editor – An editor typically performs the following tasks:

• Proof-reads content for errors in language, spelling and grammar.

• Rewrites the copy to make it readable.• Verifies the facts and stats.• Evaluates the submissions writers

submit, works with other writers.• Helps in brainstorming and ideating for

the articles.• Gives the final approval for the content

that goes live.

Skills Required –

#a. Copy Editors – They proofread for grammar, language, punctuation, readability, style of writing and whether it complies with the editorial policy.

#b. Publication Assistants – They proofread manuscripts submitted by authors, freelancers and edit raw proofs.

#c. Executive editors – They manage assistant editors and take a final call on the stories that are published.

#d. Assistant editors – They have to overlook specific departments such as sports, local news or global news.

#8. Copywriter – A copywriter researches and writes content for company blogs, creative one-liners for ads, e-books and company profiles to name a few.

Skills Required –

• Researching and compiling the facts, statistics and data for the articles.

• Ability to Converting complex content into simpler format

#9. Photography – As a photographer you can either work as a freelancer of become a part of an advertising agency or work with a senior photographer.

The options include:

1.Photojournalism-

2.Commercial photography

3.Food photography

4.Fashion photography

5.Wild life photography

6.Travel

#10. Radio Broadcasting – The role of a radio broadcaster is to present news, sports, music, taking interviews, gossip and local happenings over the radio to the audience.

Skills Required –

• Good narration skills and the ability to interview

• A good sense of humor, presence of mind, control over mixer boards and operating broadcast automation tools

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