The Messenger

Anyone know what the plan for sports coverage is?

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/02/messenger-launch-may-150-journalists

 

Here's a links to its openings page, which includes several sports jobs.
Careers At JAF Communications (hrmdirect.com)

 

Gannett's latest initiative, in which they cut costs by reassigning staff to a new venture and then shoot them?

 

Here's the Wikipedia page for The Messenger, The Messenger (website) - Wikipedia

It was founded by Jimmy Finkelstein, the former owner of The Hill.

 

I am the Messenger.
And I write and I write.
I write through Gannett's backside
I see the suits come out and cry

 

I’m hearing The Messenger faces a *very* bleak future.

 

The Messenger Plans Layoffs Amid Hunt for Cash

 

Don't kill The Messenger.

 

It's worth noting this fawning story from the NYT announcing The Messenger is less than a year old:

The Messenger, a Media Start-Up, Aims to Build a Newsroom Fast

In May, he plans to introduce The Messenger, a news site that will cover politics, business, entertainment and sports. Financed with $50 million in investor money, the site will start with at least 175 journalists stationed in New York, Washington and Los Angeles, executives say. But in a year, Mr. Finkelstein said, he plans to have around 550 journalists, about as many as The Los Angeles Times.

The goal, Mr. Finkelstein said in his first extended interview about the new business, is creating an alternative to a national news media that he says has come under the sway of partisan influences. The site will be free and supported by advertising, with an events business to follow.


“I remember an era where you’d sit by the TV, when I was a kid with my family, and we’d all watch ‘60 Minutes’ together,” said Mr. Finkelstein, who comes from a wealthy New York publishing family. “Or we all couldn’t wait to get the next issue of Vanity Fair or whatever other magazine you were interested in. Those days are over, and the fact is, I want to help bring those days back.”

The market has spoken about this many, many times over the past decade: NO ONE wants non-partisan journalism any more.

 

The New York Times? Getting something wrong? In this economy?

I wanted The Messenger to succeed, but it never felt like it had a chance. I mean, there's a one-page thread about it on a message board for sports journalists. Delayed launches are usually impossible to overcome. The Athletic has innumerable faults, but at least it had an impressive launch.

 

Scoop: Conservative media operators eye controlling stake in The Messenger, valuing the outlet at $60M (axios.com)

 

• They aren't interested in getting involved with the company's editorial efforts...

Fuck out of here they aren't. Fold up shop.