Ex-staff say the mogul banned his editor-in-chief from communicating with the rank-and-file, and likened their treatment to thoroughbreds destined for the “glue factory.”
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily BeastFollowing doomed media startup The Messenger’s spectacular flameout on Wednesday afternoon, journalists suddenly left without a job are calling owner Jimmy Finkelstein a “sociopath” for the “deliberately cruel” manner in which he handled the closure of the “centrist” news site.The Daily Beast spoke with a dozen insiders and now-former employees about the final tumultuous days of The Messenger and the aftermath of its implosion. These sources as
In the final days of doomed news website The Messenger, insiders painted a chaotic scene of checked-out-bosses and furious staffers some of whom had already "tapped out" because they had no faith in CEO Jimmy Finkelstein.
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