Grant Gibbons has been named the publisher of The Messenger. While he is new to the position of publisher, he is no stranger ...

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 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 ...

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 increasingly cutthroat ...