{"id":27170,"date":"2016-11-23T14:49:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T06:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=27170"},"modified":"2016-11-24T11:01:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T03:01:15","slug":"jahabar-sadiq-balancing-prudent-finances-with-risky-life-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/jahabar-sadiq-balancing-prudent-finances-with-risky-life-decisions","title":{"rendered":"Jahabar Sadiq: Balancing Prudent Finances With Risky Life Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Malaysian Insider (TMI) went offline on the first minute of March 15, 2016. After more than eight years of reporting, the portal\u2019s spectacular run came to an abrupt end, and with that, 59 staffers lost their jobs. Malaysians lost their fix of free, independent news.<\/p>\n<p>And no one felt the burn more than Jahabar Sadiq, the portal\u2019s editor-in-chief. He led the portal since its inception, powered through when the original team jumped ship to launch a rival news site, and was even jailed for approving the publication of a contentious article.<\/p>\n<p>But what happens to the seasoned journalist, who after investing more than eight years of his life into a news portal one day receives a notice to stop breaking news and chasing scoops?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here, Jahabar shares about his passion for journalism, how TMI was set up, his views on investment and money, and life after TMI with iMoney\u2019s writer, Emmanuel Surendra.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life after The Malaysian Insider. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":27186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,280,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career","category-interview","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - 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