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Minyanville Media Hires Josh Lipton as Staff Writer; Names Jonathan Schwartz VP Business and Product Development

Posted on: Monday, 24 August 2009, 10:02 CDT

NEW YORK, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Minyanville Media, the fast growing, Emmy Award-winning, financial media company, today announced the hiring of Josh Lipton as Staff Writer covering Business and The Markets and named Jonathan Schwartz Vice President of Business & Product Development.

"With the explosive growth we have been experiencing we needed to add capacity in both content creation and business development," said Todd Harrison Minyanville Founder and CEO. "Josh and Jon will both be key to helping us maintain the momentum we have been building."

Minyanville (www.minyanville.com) has seen a surge in traffic over the last six months, surpassing 1.5 million unique visitors and 10 million page views in July. It has recently expanded its content partnerships to include The Huffington Post.

Before joining Minyanville, Lipton most recently was a Staff Writer at Forbes.com, where he covered stock market activity and trends. Prior to that he was an Assistant Editor at The American Lawyer. His articles have also appeared in Rolling Stone magazine, New York magazine, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. He is a graduate of Colgate University and received a dual Masters from The London School of Economics and The Columbia University School of Journalism

Schwartz, who joined Minyanville in 2005, will be responsible for managing strategic alliances and developing digital strategy. In his prior role as Executive Producer he helped secure many of Minyanville's content partnerships including Internet portals AOL, MSN and Yahoo. He has also managed the development of Minyanville.com and its Buzz & Banter application. Before joining Minyanville he spent 2 years at Forbes Media where among other duties he hosted the "Week Ahead in Markets" weekly video series. A graduate of Boston University, he also served as a Strategy Analyst at Deloitte & Touche.

ABOUT MINYANVILLE

Minyanville is the Emmy Award winning, next-generation digital media company that creates branded business content to inform, educate and entertain all generations about the world of finance.

Led by a cast of animated "Critters" -- including Hoofy the Bull and Boo the Bear -- Minyanville uses a combination of smart analysis and entertainment to highlight the need for better financial understanding. Targeting segments at all stages of life -- from kids to the most sophisticated professional investors -- Minyanville reaches its audiences through their Buzz and Banter subscription product, a website (www.minyanville.com) attracting nearly 1.5 million monthly unique visitors and content distribution deals with many partners including Yahoo! Finance, T.D AMERITRADE, Dow Jones MarketWatch, Bloomberg, AOL, MSN and The Huffington Post.

They have the first and only animated business news show, The 2008 Business and Financial Reporting Emmy Award winner, "Minyanville's World In Review" that premieres weekly on Yahoo! Finance. Minyanville "professors" are regulars on Fox Business Network, CNBC and Nightly Business Report. Meanwhile, the company is reaching more than 450,000 kids through MinyanLand, an educational virtual world at www.minyanland.com.

For more information, please visit Minyanville at http://www.minyanville.com.

SOURCE Minyanville Media

Source: PR Newswire

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