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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The national digital news site has struggled to stay afloat financially since its launch last year. By Lachlan Cartwright Embattled startup The Messenger is shuttering just eight months after ...