Bleiberg was born in Brooklyn in 1924 and graduated from Townsend Harris High School in Manhattan and from Columbia University in 1943.
He joined Barron's in 1946 as associate editor after serving in the United States Army in World War II and being wounded in Okinawa.
In 1980 he was named vice president of the Dow Jones magazine group, and in 1982 editorial director and publisher of Barron's.
[1] He was credited for increasing the circulation of the newspaper by fivefold and wrote a weekly column, where he expressed staunchly pro-free-market views and harsh criticisms against government intervention.
[4][5][6] Bleiberg received an honorary doctorate from Hillsdale College, where he was also a contributor to the campus publication Imprimis.