title: January 31st, 2024 date: 2024-01-31, 15:15:51 -08:00 section: journal link: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/shoot-the-messenger.php tags:

• journalism

Matthew Ingram writes a post mortem on The Messenger news startup:

The saddest part of this whole saga, as Simon Owens noted, is that the $50 million Finkelstein and his team chewed through could have funded a hundred local news startups that people might actually want or need.

I’m a big fan of the “fund a bunch of smaller attempts”. Knowing when to favour that vs fund the larger impactful thing is hard.