The Messenger is the brainchild of former Hollywood Reporter part owner Jimmy Finkelstein, ... “It feels like People magazine,” the source said, citing Wakeford’s soft touch.

Next the Messenger allows Trump—big surprise!—to once again bash Florida Gov. Ron ... fascists, Marxists, communists, and normal people—have said that it was a total complete victory for ...

The company’s high-volume approach to digital publishing has led to duplicated stories and alienated some of its journalists. At least one editor has already resigned. By Benjamin Mullin ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of media startups, The Messenger's recent demise sheds ... clearly were not considered by this team. The way people ingest news has fundamentally changed, legacy ...

How to Burn Cash and Alienate People: Behind The Messenger’s Implosion. The shuttered site The Messenger, run by Jimmy Finkelstein and Richard Beckman, spent $50 million in less than a year ...

The Messenger — a yet-to-be-launched news site from media mogul Jimmy Finkelstein — risks becoming a money pit helmed by old-school executives with “delusional” ambitions in an ...

Growing increasingly anxious over the financial health of The Messenger, staffers at the ... hall to address their myriad concerns, multiple people familiar with the situation told Confider.

On the editorial side of the Messenger, Finkelstein hired people such as Dan Wakeford (decades of experience leading top magazines), Michelle Gotthelf (20-plus years at the New York Post), Marty ...

Dan Wakeford, a former top editor of People Magazine, will oversee the newsroom. Mr. Wakeford has hired Marty Kady, a longtime senior editor at Politico, to be The Messenger’s politics editor ...