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New department will commission papers and host expert debates, policy briefings by high-level officials. Arab News, the Middle East’s leading English-language daily, has announced the establishment of a new Research and Studies Unit (RSU). Based at the newspaper’s headquarters in Riyadh, the new unit will deliver thought-provoking studies written by a team of acclaimed resident […]

Kunal Gupta, CEO of digital media technology provider Polar, shares five reflections for the advertising industry in the age of coronavirus. 1. Spend decreases in obvious advertising categories will be offset by overall digital growth. Travel represents 9% of digital ad spend and in the past day alone, three of my clients have shared they’ve […]

The world is full of citizen journalists and today, it only takes a phone camera to start telling a story. In the video below, Agora Images curates the world’s best images for the hashtag #Photojournalism2020. Take a look at humanity’s visual manifesto. Agora images are a free-to-use app social app. The app is for the global photography […]

Socialbakers, a media analytics firm hosted its sixth Engage conference at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Dubai today. The event brought together a variety of experts from the digital space, to deliver insights into the latest trends that are happening in the social media spectrum for the audience and how they can take advantage of […]

Notable for its news coverage, BBC.com  is also home for wide genres of content ranging from informative to entertaining topics such as lifestyle, science, culture, natural history and more.  The BBC team explains that real time and accumulated data plays significant roles in identifying the type of content audiences most likely want to engage with. […]

By Caline Malek As the Gulf prepares to embrace the Fourth Industrial Revolution, artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to bring a number of benefits to many industries, including the media sector. Indeed, robo-journalism – the automated creation of news article by an algorithm – is rapidly gaining ground around the world. Many prestigious media outlets […]

All around the world, machine-generated articles are finding their way from newsroom to readers.  The first newspaper to ever publish an article written by an AI was The Los Angeles Times in 2014; the story, reporting an earthquake, was written in only three minutes by an algorithm called Quakebot – which, as its name entails, […]

By Justin Choi The world wide web celebrated its 30th birthday this past spring. That’s three decades’ worth of growth and evolution for an experiment whose entire purpose was to encourage freedom and decentralization of information and communication. Unfortunately, this open, free global information network has never worn heavier shackles than it does today. Today’s web […]

Kerning Cultures announced recently that they have  raised $460K. This news makes them  the first venture-backed podcast network in the Middle East with this capital. The seed round was led by 500 Startups, a global Venture Capital firm that has invested in companies. Podcast industry has been rising in the region and global wide. The […]

By Alex Malouf Is there any company more ubiquitous than Google? The company is everywhere, serving up billions of search engine results every day, powering our phones, helping us with our emails, providing even the directions for us to take. You know you’ve made it when your brand name becomes a verb. Google hasn’t been […]

Google announced it will launch the first Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge in Middle East and Africa (MEA) June 2019. The aim of the challenge as described by Google is to empower news innovators by showing newer ways of thinking in online journalism through development of new tools to elevate the industry. This initiative was announced […]

By Alfonso De Gaetano, Director – Global Partnerships Emerging Markets at Google The news publishing business is facing a challenging and complex reality. First, people are consuming more news than ever before, from more sources than ever before. They learn about their world and form opinions in very different ways. On the open web, anyone can […]

Twitter, Facebook and Google have all been developing new ways of handling political ads since the 2016 election, when all the platforms were abused by bad actors spreading disinformation, including through paid posts. The platforms are all changing the rules on who gets to place political ads and what information the public gets to see about them. […]

The consumer VR software and hardware market size globally was $2.2 billion in 2017 It is expected to grow to $4.5 billion in 2018 But, 200 million people worldwide will be using mobile AR in 2018 vs 60 million in 2013 Virtual reality or augmented reality? [Tweet “VR offers an escape from the real world […]

“Design is more than a logo. Design is a strategy made visible.” These are the words of Moira Cullen, vice-president of global beverage design at PepsiCo. And they couldn’t hold truer for Arab News. Arab News, and its home country Saudi, both have ambitious plans. Plans that have an air of openness, while paying homage […]

A panel at the recent In2 Innovation Summit in MENA brought to light the issues of trust and transparency in the media and PR industry. The panelists were Valerie Tan, vice-president Public Relations, Social Media, Internal Communications, Emirates; Brian Lott, head of corporate communications, Mubadala; Paul Holmes, Founder & Chair, The Holmes Report; Faisal Abbas, […]

Abu Dhabi Media’s Aletihad newspaper has entered into a commercial partnership with The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). This partnership will enable Aletihad to leverage WSJ’s reporting and analysis to expand its readership and strengthen its digital news offering. The agreement that took place last week was was attended by Dr Ali bin Tamim, Director General […]

Earlier this year, in May, Snap Inc. launched the Discover feature featuring local partners including Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera, Layalina.com, MBC, Sayidaty, Sky News Arabia, CNN and Zahrat Al Khaleej. Now, CNN has unveiled a new show exclusively for the platform called “The Update”. The daily show, which runs at 6 pm ET, provides a […]

In early June, six Middle East countries – UAE, KSA, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya and Yemen – severed diplomatic ties with Qatar. Since then, there have been talks to resolve the crisis; however, Qatar has rejected the list of demands by the Arab states including that of shutting down Al Jazeera. The broadcasting network was first […]

(L to R: Baker Atyani, Faisal J. Abbas and Ben Flanagan) Saudi-based English language daily Arab News has launched bureaus in Europe and Asia as part of its ongoing global, digital expansion. The multimedia newsgathering hubs, run by two veteran journalists with decades of experience in the field, will contribute to the print edition and […]

Amazon is trying a new way to take its Alexa digital assistant mobile by developing wireless earbuds that mirror Apple’s popular AirPods. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant is readying earbuds with built-in Alexa access for as early as the second half of this year, according to people with knowledge of the plans. The headphones will look and act […]

The B-roll is often mentioned, but how many PR professionals actually use it? More importantly, how many actually know what it is? In short, the B-roll can be the difference between clinching that slot on a TV or online channel or having the delete button pressed on your pitch. It can often be the difference between […]