John Burr
WJCT Business Analyst/ Co-host of "Business Brief"WJCT Business Analyst John Burr is a veteran journalist who has been been directing news coverage and reporting in Jacksonville since 1983. He is currently also a news analyst for WJCT, where he can be heard regularly on the "First Coast Connect" media roundtable.
John is also the principal at Nighthawk Creatives, a media services company. Burr was editor-in-chief for the Jacksonville Business Journal, a post he held for seven years. He came to the Business Journal after reporting and editing for The Florida Times-Union, where he left as an assistant managing editor in 2008.
He is the winner of numerous journalism awards as a reporter, columnist and editor.
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Jacksonville-based EverBank, the largest bank based in Florida, is being sold to a company called TIAA.In this week’s Business Brief, WJCT Business…
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Getting more people qualified for the workforce is the goal of a Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce program called Earn Up. Its efforts recently earned the…
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A recent analysis ranks Jacksonville among the country’s top 30 cities for women to open a business. In this week’s “Business Brief,” analyst John Burr…
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A super-sized cargo ship was met with great fanfare when it docked in Miami over the weekend. The MOL Majesty is the first neo-Panamax vessel to reach…
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When parts break on the International Space Station, astronauts can get instant replacements thanks to onboard 3-D printers. In this “Business Brief,”…