Money-bleeding start-up The Messenger — the news site that launched to great fanfare last May — shut down after less than a year in “the Titanic of publishing disasters.” The startup was scrubbed of ...

While startup news outlet The Messenger’s initial focus was on news and politics around their launch last May, they quickly made a splash in the sports world. In September, they added prominent ...

News site The Messenger on Wednesday dismissed a report that the money-bleeding startup would shut down by the end of the month as “beyond absurd.” Board members met last Friday and weighed closing ...

The Messenger, the upstart digital news outlet that hired hundreds of journalists and vowed to upend the industry as a centrist publication, will shut down less than a year after its high-profile ...

It’s been a rough start to 2024 for The Messenger, the digital media startup launched by Jimmy Finkelstein with sky-high ambitions of changing the news business. Scale has always been the defining ...

Just south of Mercury’s equator lies a crater honoring Czech composer Leoš Janáček. Battered and time-worn, it sits amid countless others dotting the barren, broiling terrain of the solar system’s ...

The Messenger, the news startup launched by Jimmy Finkelstein less than a year ago, will be closing down. “The entire staff is devastated,” an individual with knowledge of the move told TheWrap on ...

They say don’t shoot the messenger, but what if The Messenger shoots itself? Media startup The Messenger burst on the scene last May with $50 million in hand, aggressively hiring journalists to build ...

Oh, wait — you’re telling me The Messenger shut down three months ago? It burned through all $50 million, laid off hundreds of journalists, and made only $3 million in revenue in 2023? Well, at least ...

The Messenger, a news website that pledged to shake up the media industry with a playbook borrowed from the doomed publishing start-ups of yesteryear, will be closing down. In an email to staff, the ...