She added that in the journalism and communications field, these mergers have changed the number of press agencies. Therefore, mergers may lead to changes in the number of press agencies but they do not necessarily reduce job opportunities. In fact, development space can expand beyond traditional journalism to new platforms such as digital journalism, multimedia journalism and data journalism,” she said. At the event, another student raised a concern: “Currently the local government model is shifting from three-level to two-level, and many state agencies have redundant staff. In the era of the digital economy and digital society, digital competency will certainly be one of the important criteria in recruitment,” Duc said.

Source: VietNamNet News March 16, 2026 06:09 UTC