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

The Internet: What Could Possibly Be Next?

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

Around 2005, I remember wondering what sort of idiot would want to look at videos on a tiny cellphone screen. Less than a decade later,…

Memo to Discovery: Don’t Drop Oprah

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

Discovery's OWN is losing money, but it shouldn't throw in the towel on Oprah. OWN was hurt by early over-hyping, and many of its problems can be fixed.

Got Nerve? Israel Has Plenty to Offer

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

A resilient economy and a focus on innovation are strong lures. And more Israel-based companies are listed on the Nasdaq than any other country except the U.S.

AOL’s Never-Ending Drama

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

Patch's dizzyingly fast ramp-up is being dismantled just as quickly, with a cascade of layoffs.

Somebody Should Pay for Disney’s ‘John Carter’ Mess

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor

CEO Bob Iger says the company should learn from the mistake, but is refusing to blame one person for the fiasco. That's too bad.

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