Jonathan Berr

Jonathan Berr

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

Writers’ Eyes Fixed on Apple Pricing Case

Recent events affecting the book publishing industry, such as the Apple (AAPL) price-fixing case, have captured the attention of myself and other authors.

Tumblr’s Success Still Comes Down to Karp

If Mayer and Yahoo want to make this deal work, they'll need Tumblr's CEO to remain engaged with a lot of potentially unpalatable changes ... or be ready to replace him.

The News About Newspapers: It’s ‘Less Bad’

Long-embattled newspaper stocks are starting to see their print hemorrhaging slow, and operational diversity also is stemming the bleeding. Still, few are worth owning.

Why Daniel Loeb Is Right About Sony

I would say that I agree with Daniel Loeb's call for Sony to spin off its entertainment business, but it sounds more like he agrees with me.

Pounce on Fumbling AOL

AOL failed to live up to Street expectations for the first time in six quarters and the numbers aren't pretty ... yet it's still not time to bail the Internet company.