Jonathan Berr

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

Stringwire: More Dangers in Citizen Journalism

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

NBC News has bought Stringwire so it can tap everyday people for video of newsworthy events. Like all citizen journalist initiatives, it has its risks.

It’s the Beginning of the End for AOL’s Patch

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

The future of AOL's Patch is shaky at best. Here are three predictions about what's next for the hyper-local news sites -- none of which are pretty.

DirecTV and Dish Network: Perfect Together

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

Dish Network and DirecTV are both in dire need of a spark, and a merger between the two could give them greater bargaining power.

Sorry Google, People Don’t Want Local News

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

Google Now is adding a hyper-local news service -- a head-scratching decision considering countless similar ventures by other companies have failed.

Concerns About Comcast Are Plain Wrong

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

Concerned chatter about cord-cutters is nothing more than noise, and Comcast stock remains a buy.

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