[1] The editor-in-chief is Lea Korsgaard [da], formerly of Berlingske and Politiken,[3] who co-founded Zetland along with Jakob Moll, Silke Bock, and Hakon Mosbech.

[4] Founded in 2012, Zetland originally created single long-form stories, called e-singles, delivered monthly to subscribers.

[7] Since the relaunch, notable pieces have included conversations with Justice Minister Søren Pind and British sociologist Anthony Giddens.

[15][16] In May 2020, former Head of Product Tav Klitgaard replaced co-founder Jakob Moll as CEO, with the latter pursuing academic studies abroad.

In 2023 Zetland launched Good Tape, a speech-to-text transcription tool initially created for internal use that was later spun off as a separate entity.