Forced Off TV, Pakistani Journalists Build New Audiences on YouTube – By Imad Khan (CNET) / April 16, 2022
A wave of journalist firings hits Pakistani media after Imran Khan’s ouster as prime minister.
When Imran Riaz Khan lost his job as an anchor at Pakistan’s Samaa TV a week ago, he joined a growing list of journalists who’ve found themselves out of work amid the country’s political turmoil.
Luckily, Riaz Khan has a YouTube channel with 2.6 million subscribers to fall back on.
Over the past two years, Riaz Khan carefully cultivated his online viewership, racking up more than 650 million views as he held forth on Pakistan’s often combustible politics. As an effort to oust the prime minister mounted, views to his channel spiked.
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