The sudden shutdown of Jimmy Finkelstein’s The Messenger on Wednesday – eight months and more than $50 million after its launch — was the latest distress signal from the world of digital news media, ...

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 ...

In the wake of the mass criticism from media around news site The Messenger, Jimmy Finkelstein is sticking up for his new venture. “I sold The Hill a year and a half ago,” Finkelstein told Vanity Fair ...

The abrupt shuttering of The Messenger Jan. 31, with many employees finding out via a report in The New York Times and with stories on the website suddenly going dark, has left a lot of fallout. There ...

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, 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 ...

In the final days of doomed news website the Messenger, insiders painted a chaotic scene of checked-out bosses and furious staffers — some of whom had already “tapped out” because they had no faith in ...