ince mid-February when I announced Zeteo by sharing a short trailer on a mostly bare webpage, more than 150,000 of you have signed up to show your support for this crazy idea I had about starting a new kind of media company. Over the last few weeks, I’ve done town halls with many of you, and with special guests; our team has made viral social videos; and I started a regular newsletter. But it was all leading up to the big moment, the big formal launch, today.

‘Mehdi Unfiltered,’ my weekly news program, is finally out. Some of you may prefer reading rather than watching, but I hope you’ll hit play on the video above to get a sense of what’s to come on this flagship series for Zeteo.

So, what’s covered in our first episode? Spoiler alert: Gaza and the U.S. elections. But it’s not what you’re seeing everywhere else. This is my take, my style, my kind of accountability journalism that doesn’t shy away from the truth. ….more