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Out-of-touch brass, outraged staffers and pure pandemonium

On the day of news website Messenger’s demise, insiders painted a chaotic scene of checked-out bosses and furious staff. Some of them had already been “fired” because they didn’t trust CEO Jimmy Finkelstein. Accounts from several of the roughly 300 journalists fired during the start-up’s bankruptcy on Wednesday showed that high-paid editor-in-chief Dan Wakeford and […]