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

Two News Corps Mean Double the Murdoch

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

Splitting the strong entertainment business from the weak publishing side makes sense for shareholders -- but that's no panacea.

AOL Wins Proxy Battle But Might Lose the War

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

AOL won a small victory in a proxy fight against Starboard Value LLC, but a faltering online ad market and the company's dependency on dial-up still linger.

AOL’s Damn-the-Torpedoes Strategy on Patch

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

CEO Tim Armstrong is sticking to his guns, despite taking fierce fire over the money-losing local news sites from activist investors Starboard Value.

5 Stocks for Good Times and Bad

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

Nothing is "recession proof" -- but these stocks are pretty close because their products appeal to the cost-conscious, as well as to those who have cash to burn.

How Has Chesapeake’s Aubrey McClendon Survived?

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

It's a wonder that the company hasn't fired controversial CEO Aubrey McClendon yet. But with the board getting revamped, that could change soon.

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