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

Expect Disney to Keep Trimming the Fat

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

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

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

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

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

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.

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