The Messenger shuts down less than a year after launching news site: ‘Titanic of publishing disasters’

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 all articles Wednesday evening, hours after an insider at the publication told The Post “The site will go dark.”

None of the roughly 300 staffers will get severance, the source added.

The site’s homepage was blank aside from the message  info@themessenger.com

A rep for The Messenger did not comment.

Co-founder and CEO Jimmy Finkelstein, who raised $50 million to launch the site, had been scrambling to secure funding this week as employees braced to hear whether the company would avert disaster, as The Post previously reported.