1980s

1980 – Wall Street Journal expands to two sections.

1980 – CNN begins airing a show called Moneyline featuring Lou Dobbs.

1980 – Larry Birger at the Miami Herald creates the Monday tabloid business section.

1982 – Forbes begins publishing list of the 400 richest people.

1984 – Investor’s Business Daily begins publishing.

1984 – Reuters sells stock and becomes a public company.

1984 – Reporter R. Foster Winans uses the Heard on the Street column in The Wall Street Journal to promote stocks for friends. He is later convicted.

1984 – Mobil Corp. withdraws ads from The Wall Street Journal and refuses to talk to its reporters.

1988 – Wall Street Journal adds Money & Investing section.

1989 -- Public radio’s popular business program American Public Media’s "Marketplace" hit the air on Jan. 2, 1989, to bring news about money, the financial system, and the economy to a wider public.  

1989 – CNBC launches as a cable business news network by NBC.

1989 – Atlanta Journal-Constitution wins Pulitzer Prize for series of stories that uncovers redlining by banks using computer databases.

1989 – Ray Shaw purchases American City Business Journals and makes the weekly business newspaper standard reading in major metropolitan markets.