“I am actually feeling quite good about not being in corporate media in a year like this,” says journalist Mehdi Hasan, who quit his over 24-year career as a mainstream journalist to start his own news media company Zeteo.
In an exclusive conversation with Sreenivasan Jain in Zeteo’s studio in Washington DC, Hasan says the 9-month-old company’s success speaks to the crises in American media. “The number of subscribers we have had... That is a reaction from people who are saying they are fed up with the corporate media, we want independent journalism.”
