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

Online Ads: Where the Money Really Is

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

For media companies, the big opportunity now is to offer a gamut of online marketing services that go well beyond the usual banner ads.

For Media Companies, Sports Sure Ain’t Cheap

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

The amount media companies are paying for broadcasting rights just keeps climbing. How much longer until consumers and shareholders feel the burn?

AOL’s New Patch Still Has Lots of Holes

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

A redesign helps, but fundamental flaws are still obvious. Patch desperately needs to figure out how to draw a large and engaged readership.

Marissa Mayer’s Vague Platitudes Won’t Cut It

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

Longing for specifics in new CEO Marissa Mayer's much-anticipated address to Yahoo employees, investors didn't get much to chew on.

General Dynamics’ Secret Weapon

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

Among its peer group of major defense contractors, GD has a strong commercial business that should offset Pentagon spending cuts.

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