Zainab Khan

Alumni

Zainab Khan is Managing Editor, Global Audience at POLITICO.

Zainab was formerly VP of Strategy & Growth at Luminary, where she worked with Marketing, Growth and Operations to grow show listenership and the overall audio show library, bring a digital-first expertise to the network and introduce new business models to drive revenue. Before that, Zainab was at the New York Times where she led video audience strategy on and off platform. This included growing the YouTube, Instagram and X channels and producing the initial work to launch on TikTok.

Prior to The Times, Zainab worked as an Audience Strategist at AJ+, Al Jazeera’s digital-first publication, working on Apple News & Youtube. As a graduate student at UC Berkeley, Zainab launched her own digital media publication called Mozzified Muslim Pop Culture and a production company called Mozzified Studios. Mozzified attracted a substantial online audience within its first year.