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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sudden shutdown of Jimmy Finkelstein’s The Messenger on Wednesday – eight months and more than $50 million after its launch — ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Messenger, a high-profile news startup founded by media entrepreneur Jimmy Finkelstein, will close after less than a year of existence, according to The New York Times. Despite launching with 300 ...

Digital news startup The Messenger is shutting down after less than a year and falling well short of its highly ambitious goals. In a memo to staff obtained by Fox News Digital, founder Jimmy ...

The Messenger, a digital media company that launched less than a year ago, has shut down following multiple reports that it was set to do so. News of the startup’s plans to shutter was first reported ...

A text time-stamped 1:19 a.m. early Wednesday read, “I think it’s over, man.” It was a Los Angeles–based colleague at The Messenger. He’d received an unanticipated direct deposit and the sum totaled ...

Jimmy Finkelstein was chief executive and founder of the Messenger, a much-hyped general news site that recently collapsed, leaving about 250 journalists looking for work. Obituaries for the Messenger ...