JOHN M. BERRY covered the Federal Reserve and the U.S. economy for the Washington Post for 25 years before leaving in 2004 to become a columnist for Bloomberg News. He left Bloomberg in 2009 to begin free lance writing including columns for Thomson Reuters. Over the years, his stories about the Fed frequently moved financial markets because he is widely recognized for his ability to interpret and explain the thinking of Federal Reserve officials, and for his knowledge of the American economy.
Before joining the Washington Post in 1979, he covered the Fed and the economy in Washington for Business Week, Time Magazine and Forbes Magazine, for which he was Washington bureau chief.
Berry began his journalism career with his hometown newspaper, the Johnson City (Tenn.) Press-Chronicle, after attending Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., where he was an economics major. From 1962 until 1965, he was a reporter and editor at the Providence (R.I.) Journal.
His work has also appeared in the International Herald-Tribune, Fortune, International Economy, Financier, Central Banking and other American and foreign publications.