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 ...

The shuttered site The Messenger, run by Jimmy Finkelstein and Richard Beckman, spent $50 million in less than a year, leaving 300 employees out of work and a seven-figure bill owed to vendors. By ...

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 ...