The New media and the traditional media work in harmony.

By Mariam Yousef 

Octavia Nasser and Nabil Al Katib during the session. 

     Octavia Nasser, the founder of Bridge Media Counseling Company in the USA, insured that the new media and the traditional media in the Arab countries are working in harmony these days after the revolutions of some of these countries. She added “before the revolutions the traditional media didn't notice the power of the social media networks that is created by young Arabs who try to send the voice of justice by these networks".

     Nasser believes that we can't isolate the new media from the traditional one because people need both of them to build a new vision of media for the Arab countries’ future.

    Nabil Al Katib, An Executive Editor in Al Arabiya news channel, said after Nasser's point of view that TV news channels are having higher percentages of watching than the social networks. However, “the social media has more emotional impact on the audience because it comes by the people who live the events" he added.

    The session was one of the Arab Media Forum’s sessions that held in Dubai Grand Hayat Hotel before one week. The hall was full of journalists from different international countries with number of universities' students who came due to their interests in the recent media issues of the Arab world.