After departing MSNBC earlier this year, Mehdi Hasan has announced the launch of a digital media company.
The Mehdi Hasan Show was canceled late last year, which ultimately led to Hasan leaving the cable news outlet he called home since 2020.
After the cancellation of his show, Hasan joined The Guardian as a regular columnist but has subsequently announced plans for a new digital media company called Zeteo.
“You thought I was gone? You can’t get rid of me that easily,” Hasan joked to begin a video announcing the debut of the company. “I’m back with a whole new media company. In fact, my own. We’re calling it Zeteo, the ancient Greek word that goes back to Socrates and Plato, which means to seek out to inquire to get to the truth. And that is the guiding principle behind my new media venture.”
He continued by claiming he has assembled an “Avengers-style team of contributors” that “will blow your mind.”
Mehdi Hasan will anchor a weekly streaming video show called Mehdi Unfiltered. He also teased podcasts, op-eds, and newsletters from the upstart company.
Subscriptions to the company will eventually cost $6 per month, he told The Washington Post.
Hasan isn’t the first former cable news host to launch their own digital media startup. Both Tucker Carlson and Bill O’Reilly have created similar ventures since they each departed Fox News. However, Hasan noted, “No one really on the progressive left has been able to pull off anything similar.”
