In this episode, we’ll be talking about the digitization of media in the Middle East. We sit down with John Lillywhite, who has a wealth of experience in this industry having undertaken several publication-focused roles both at corporations and entrepreneurial ventures. Together we discuss:
- Media consumption habits of Arabs in the Middle East
- Differences between the publishing industry in the West & the Middle East
- Machine learning advancements with the Arabic language
- New models in the publication industry (e.g. Blockchain)
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