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

News Corp Needs to Gamble on Sports

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

Challenging ESPN with a 24-hour sports network wouldn't be easy by any means, but the potential reward is too great for News Corp to ignore.

Extra, Extra! Newspapers Are on the Block

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

Expect Tribune properties and the Financial Times to change hands in the coming year. Will this mean upside for any stocks?

CNN Goes Out on a Limb with Jeff Zucker

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

The struggling cable news network's new boss has a sketchy record at best. And he faces some pretty daunting challenges in turning CNN around.

McGraw-Hill’s Education Dump: About Time!

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

McGraw-Hill's sale of its floundering education business was a long time coming, but the company probably will have to make more deals to stay relevant.

3 Reasons MSNBC Won’t ‘Catch Up’ to Fox

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

MSNBC may have gained in the ratings during election coverage, but it sure won't catch up to Fox any time soon. Here are three reasons why.

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