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How can media survive the age of technology? John Prideaux, US Editor, The Economist - Moderator Mina Al-Oraibi, Editor-in-Chief, The National, UAE John Defterios, CNN Business Emerging Markets Editor and anchor of ‘CNN Marketplace Middle East’ Shashi Menon, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Nervora Headlines about the parlous state of conventional news media have been plentiful in the past decade, stoked by a decline in advertising revenues diverted to social media platforms and online news aggregators. Digital circulation for major newspapers has also stalled. Technology has not only changed journalism, it has also changed what it is to be a reader. So what is worth reading today? Which media can be trusted? What is the role of traditional media in the face of social media, filter bubbles and fake news? How the media can survive and also thrive in this age of fast-changing, disruptive technology, was the subject of the second panel discussion at Culture Summit Abu Dhabi 2019. The talk was moderated by John Prideaux, US Editor of The Economist, with panellists Mina Al-Oraibi, Editor-in-Chief of The National, an English-language newspaper published in Abu Dhabi; Shashi Menon, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dubai- 25