News startup The Messenger shutting down

The Messenger, a digital media company that launched less than a year ago, will soon shut down, according to multiple reports.

News of the startup’s plans to shutter was first reported by The New York Times on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the decision.

The Hill has reached out to a representative for the outlet.

Last spring, founder Jimmy Finkelstein, who previously owned The Hill, told the Times and other media outlets his vision for The Messenger was one that he described as a “Washington Post, Daily Mail hybrid.”

Finkelstein at the time said he wanted to offer an option for online news consumers looking for an alternative to mainstream outlets like CNN and and the country’s leading newspapers.

“I find that bias in the news is not so much what the people report, but what they don’t report,” he said. “So it’s really a question of not commission, but omission.”