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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yes, the founders of The Messenger were clueless. But the news site was doomed to fail no matter who was in charge. The Messenger was a particularly spectacular failure, but it also highlights how ...

News startup, The Messenger, was fighting for its life, in trying to raise $50 million by the end of the week. It failed. SemaforNews startup The Messenger shuts down after pricey launch | Semafor New ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...