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

Yahoo Still Lacking Straightforward Strategy

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

Yahoo doesn't have a plan for returning cash to shareholders, but also doesn't have a solution for overcoming its biggest challenge: balance.

Sleepwalking Closer to the Fiscal Cliff

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

Moody's downgrade warning on U.S. debt highlights how little Congress is doing as the country nears the deadly combination of tax hikes and spending cuts.

Penney’s Free Haircut Ploy: Not So Dumb

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

Offering free haircuts is a low-cost way to lure shoppers and create some much needed goodwill. It could even be a sign CEO Ron Johnson still has a magic touch.

Publishers Have Themselves to Blame for Amazon’s Triumph

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos has won the e-book price wars and will leave his competitors in the dust. The publishers that are complaining now…

Sony’s Kazuo Hirai Needs a Magic Wand

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

He also needs a knife -- to cut the tech conglomerate's many underperformers, such as its TV-making and content-producing businesses.

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