Traditional media and new media are partners!

 By: Manal Abdullah  



Alarabiya panel , AMF2011



 The moderator Taleb Kanaan started saying that the Arab world’s revolution didn’t need newspapers, TVs’ or magazines to start. A small invitation in one of the social networking websites was enough to start a revolution. This fact made the traditional media struggle to dominate. That was at a debate on how the new media affected Arab world between important media people at Alarabiya panel in the Arab Media Forum ,2011 under the title “Media in a shifting Arab world”.

 Oktavia Nasr the founder of Bridges Media Consulting and Editor of OctaviaNasr.com, disagreed saying that the partnership between new media and traditional media is obvious and undeniable. She added that new media have to work with traditional media  in order to deliver credible news to the audience. news spreads through new media is not always correct and not reliable as the traditional media’s news is ,and it needs a huge effort to make sure whether the news is correct or not in order to publish it.

Oktavia Nasr continued saying that the journalist have to know the politics, culture and the geography of the country before taking news from people and publish it. Publishing a credible news and mentioning the source shows respect to the receiver. Therefore, new media and traditional media are in need of each other and should work together.

Audio of Octavia explaining the relationship between traditional and new media octavia-audio