The Messenger is shutting its doors eight months after the digital news site launched, with the startup having burned through $50 million in funding. It was a very hard and sudden crash. The New York ...

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 Messenger got shot. In the wake of its spectacular flameout this week, the ill-fated digital news startup is the target of a lawsuit seeking class-action status on behalf of its 300 ex-employees — ...