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

Why I Shouldn’t Have Sold Disney Stock

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

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

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

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

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

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.

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