Experts agree on responsible, influential role of digital media

Experts agree on responsible, influential role of digital media

KUWAIT: There have been divergent views over the pros and cons of the digitalization of the Kuwaiti media sector in recent years, involving the quality of digital media platforms and their news credibility, let alone the role of social media. The Kuwaiti media sector has introduced digital technology in an inescapable step that aims at revamping production and publication and providing media content in a speedier and more effective mode. Kuwait News Chief Abdullah Boftain opined that both digital and conventional media entities are playing a complementary role in digital media transformation.

“In the process of our digital transformation at Kuwait Times newspaper and Kuwait News media establishment, we combined heritage with modernity, traditional content with new content, as well as Arabic and English languages, twinning between Kuwait News electronic newspaper and Kuwait Times English newspaper,” said Boftain, who is also the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Kuwait Times, the first English daily in Kuwait and the Gulf region. Kuwait News, on the other hand, is considered among the first news providers to be launched in Kuwait through short messages (SMS) and was the first to become a licensed e-paper by the Ministry of Information in 2006.

“Our role in the private sector is