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

PepsiCo’s Smart — but Late — Bet on Yogurt

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

Indra Nooyi wants to increase the percentage of Pepsi's healthier fare over the long term. Her problem is investors are tired of waiting for results.

Jamie Dimon May Be in Danger

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

The hot water keeps getting hotter for the once-lauded CEO. It's no longer unthinkable that the huge trading loss could cost Dimon his job.

Murdoch’s Newspapers Have Nowhere to Hide

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

If I worked for The Wall Street Journal, the split-up of News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWSA) would scare me deeply. Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers, including his Pulitzer Prize-winning crown…

Yahoo Rediscovers the Ad Business

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

Yahoo interim CEO's renewed focus on advertising might seem a "duh" strategy, but it's quite the deviation from the crooked path Yahoo has been traveling.

New York Times Co.’s Pointless CEO Search

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

The most important skill any NYT CEO must have is the ability to let Chairman Arthur Sulzberger do whatever he wants -- and then become a scapegoat when things go wrong.

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