Can Lebanon construct a multi-channel digital future for serious journalism?

The tech entrepreneurship landscape in Lebanon is slowly producing more colorful and fragrant blossoms —more prosaically known as startup ventures. Also, the country’s entrepreneurship ecosystem, after some years of incremental progress by trial and error, appears to be heading in a direction where it can deliver on two important asset categorizations and ecosystem requirements: generating more diversity overall; and fostering more concepts with potentials for producing good value-added in the context of the national economy today and its needed digital transition, such as Fintech, Blockchain and AI/Big Data-related startups. But this is not how the presence and future look for all entrepreneurs who seek to innovate and create Lebanese startups from which the economy could greatly benefit. Specifically, many media startups are looking like ships that have no wind in their sails. Even worse, it seems that serious journalistic projects in this country are embattled by digitization-obstructing tornados in comparison