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 ...

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 ...

In the final hours of The Messenger, owner Jimmy Finkelstein reached out to offer a merger with the Los Angeles Times, telling his staff that a deal was imminent, TheWrap has learned. But the Los ...

The Messenger is reportedly in dire financial straits, according to a report in The Daily Beast’s Confider newsletter on Monday. Launched in May, The Messenger went on a hiring binge offering salaries ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...