Jonathan Berr

InvestorPlace Contributor

Jonathan Berr has been a professional journalist since 1991. He has covered a wide variety of beats, ranging from to electric utilities to media conglomerates to tech companies.

While a reporter at Bloomberg News in 2002, he won the Gerald Loeb Award, one of the most prestigious awards in business journalism. He was part of a team at AOL’s DailyFinance that won the New York Press Club’s award for Internet feature writing in 2010. His freelance writing has appeared in Atlantic.com, AOL, Yahoo, MSN and 24/7 Wall Street, along with The New York Times and Business Week.

He lives in New Jersey with his wife and son.

You can reach him at jdberr@gmail.com. Follow him on Twitter at @jdberr.

Recent Articles

Why I Shouldn’t Have Sold Disney Stock

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor May 8, 2013

Learn from my mistake. I sold Disney last year but it continues to turn in solid numbers, including a better-than-expected second quarter.

Yahoo Will Benefit From Alibaba’s Social Media Push

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor Apr 29, 2013

Alibaba's acquisition of the growthy Chinese microblog Weibo will eventually pay off for Yahoo, too -- it's just a matter of when.

What Do Yahoo’s Earnings Mean for Google?

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor Apr 18, 2013

For now at least. it all comes down to ad revenue. How the big companies slice up that pie -- well, that's what quarterly reports are for.

Dish Bids for Sprint But Needs Dose of Reality

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor Apr 17, 2013

Charlie Ergen -- CEO of Dish Network -- is taking a huge gamble with his recent unsolicited bid for Sprint, as the deal only sounds promising in theory.

Aereo Is Rattling the Network TV Cage

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor Apr 10, 2013

Consumers are increasingly demanding TV on their own terms, which makes Aereo -- a service providing an end-around for transmission fees -- a threat to the major networks.

Expect Disney to Keep Trimming the Fat

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor Apr 5, 2013

Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) CEO Bob Iger is reportedly about to take a much-needed axe to the media conglomerate’s bloated payroll, which has swelled in recent…

Why Comcast Shouldn’t Fire Stephen Burke

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor Apr 2, 2013

Sure, NBC is a bit of a mess lately. But it's only a small portion of Comcast's enormous business.

Outdoor Ads: Lots of Long-Term Potential

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor Mar 29, 2013

Investors don't seem super bullish on outdoor advertising, but the sector is actually a promising long-term play thanks to the growing digital business.

Comcast Makes Calculated Bet on Online News

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor Mar 20, 2013

Comcast's NBC recently announced that it is beefing up its original reporting for NBCNew.com -- a move that looks promising for the parent company.

Mayer’s Yahoo: A “Global Tech Company?”

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor Mar 12, 2013

Yahoo is attempting to rebrand itself as a “global technology company,” but that so-called transition is questionable and, at the end of the day, irrelevant.