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 ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of media startups, The Messenger's recent demise sheds light on the critical disparities between running a media venture and a tech startup ...

Jimmy Finkelstein’s news outlet, The Messenger, died after less than a year. Bonkers spending on food, travel, and salaries couldn’t save a 2013-era idea in a 2024 world.

Perhaps the most striking thing about The Messenger’s first day was the sheer volume of content. By my count, it published 203 different stories Monday — some as short as a single sentence. The 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 ...

Facebook annoyed and puzzled many people last year when it forced them to download its Messenger app for chats. Its reasons for doing so are now clearer: Messenger is becoming a beast of an app ...

The Messenger will be starting during a difficult ad market. Media companies like The Washington Post, News Corp and Vox Media have all cut staff in the last year, some citing a fall in ...

Grid News, a one-year-old start-up, shuttered this week after getting acquired by The Messenger, which launches next month. Grid promised a different kind of news. The Messenger has even loftier ...

Meta’s Messenger Lite app for Android is being shut down in September. The app launched as a more lightweight way to talk to people on the company’s Messenger platform.