{"id":3147,"date":"2024-02-02T11:10:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T11:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/the-spectacular-collapse-of-the-messenger-is-a-lesson-on-how-not-to-do-journalism-margaret-sullivan\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T11:10:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T11:10:07","slug":"the-spectacular-collapse-of-the-messenger-is-a-lesson-on-how-not-to-do-journalism-margaret-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/the-spectacular-collapse-of-the-messenger-is-a-lesson-on-how-not-to-do-journalism-margaret-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"The spectacular collapse of the Messenger is a lesson on how not to do journalism | Margaret Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The startup publication blew through $50m in less than a year \u2013 money that could sustain some newsrooms for decades<\/p>\n<p>The new journalism outlet began less than a year ago to considerable fanfare. Claiming it would be unbiased and indispensable, the Messenger recruited hundreds of journalists, paid its executives lavishly and confidently forecast $100m in annual revenue this year.<\/p>\n<p>It would be like the good old days when the media was beloved, its founder predicted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/feb\/02\/the-messenger-startup-collapse-journalism-takeaways\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The startup publication blew through $50m in less than a year \u2013 money that could sustain some newsrooms for decades The new journalism outlet began less than a year ago to considerable fanfare. Claiming it would be unbiased and indispensable, the Messenger recruited hundreds of journalists, paid its executives lavishly and confidently forecast $100m in &#8230; <a title=\"The spectacular collapse of the Messenger is a lesson on how not to do journalism | Margaret Sullivan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/the-spectacular-collapse-of-the-messenger-is-a-lesson-on-how-not-to-do-journalism-margaret-sullivan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The spectacular collapse of the Messenger is a lesson on how not to do journalism | Margaret Sullivan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}