Minyanville Media, Inc. was an Internet-based financial media and publishing company.
Investment/business articles and broadcasts were available directly on its website, and via licensing agreements with major financial websites that include
Yahoo Finance
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,
MSN Money
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,
AOL Money & Finance and
MarketWatch
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Histor ...
. More than 40 financial professionals publish bylined articles on Minyanville; the company also provides subscription publications with market-specific analysis. Its website receives some 1,000,000 Unique Visitors per month, and is in the top 4,000 websites in the U.S. Minyanville's content has earned an
Emmy
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for Business and Financial Reporting for its web show "Minyanville's World in Review with Hoofy and Boo".
Minyanville was started in 2002 by
Todd Harrison
Todd Harrison is the founder and CEO of the Emmy Award-winning internet media company Minyanville.
Biography
Wall Street Career
Todd Harrison optioned out of a two-decade ascent toward the upper echelons of Wall Street leadership to founMiny ...
, who had been a trader, fund manager, and senior executive on Wall Street, with such firms as
Morgan Stanley
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and
Galleon Group
The Galleon Group was one of the largest hedge fund management firms in the world, managing over $7 billion, before closing in October 2009. The firm was the center of a 2009 insider trading scandal which subsequently led to its fall.
The firm wa ...
. In July 2000, Harrison's first financial column appeared on
TheStreet.com
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, which he wrote as a favor for a former colleague who was going on vacation. Harrison says his bearish commentary on tech stocks resonated with readers, and he soon became a featured columnist.
In May 2014, Todd Harrison announced he was "looking for a new business model" stating the online media model is 'broken', and was putting Minyanville up for sale. Not necessarily to a competing media outfit, but ideally to a financial institution. Harrison was looking to turn Minyanville into an outlet that isn't depending on ads or chasing web traffic purely for traffic's sake
Later in 2014, Minyanville was acquired by T3Live / T3Trading, the digital content and reader community absorbed there and the website shut down.
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Mass media companies of the United States
Publishing companies of the United States
Companies based in New York City
Publishing companies established in 2002
2002 establishments in New York City