The role of media in the present-day world cannot be overestimated. They reflect key tendencies of the modern world in general and language evolution in particular. Spread of digital media opened new opportunities for linguistic analysis and provided new topics for investigation. The paper aims at analyzing the role of mass media in Arabic teaching and research, taking into consideration peculiarities of the language of the media and modern linguistic situation in the Arabic-speaking world. Recently media of the Middle East countries has undergone modernization changes due to transformations of political regimes, globalization, and technological advances. These changes affected the language of mass media, primarily its vocabulary. ICT development made the Arabic language to coin new terminology, appearance of new meanings of words. These tendencies may be found in the language of media, which mirrors modern trends in the social development. That is why the use of media in Arabic teaching is compulsory, since it provides interdisciplinary approach, which is necessary for the training of highly qualified specialists, ready to problem-solving.