1990s

1990 – Michael Bloomberg starts Bloomberg Business News. The name later changes to Bloomberg News.

1990 – Washington Post reporters win Pulitzer Prize for their investigation into Securities and Exchange Commission and how it regulates Wall Street.

1991 – CNBC buys out Financial News Network.

1991 – The Wall Street Journal wins a Pulitzer Prize for examining the human impact of the leverage buyout of Safeway Stores Inc.

June 1991 – Sylvia Porter dies.

1992 – Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones and magazine publisher Hearst Corp. begin publishing personal finance magazine Smart Money. Mutual fund company Fidelity Investments starts Worth magazine.

November 1992 – NBC’s Dateline runs a segment showing how General Motors trucks explode when involved in accidents. The automaker sues the network, which later apologizes for staging the accidents to make them look worse than they appear.

1994 – Marketwatch.com starts posting business news online.

1994 – John Hancock Awards for Excellence in business journalism are discontinued after 27 years.

1995 – CNNfn launches.

1995 –The Wall Street Journal launches WSJ.com. It increasingly becomes the home of breaking news by Journal reporters.

October 1995 – BusinessWeek publishes a story called "The Bankers Trust Tapes" that detail the inner workings of how Bankers Trust sold complex financial instruments known as derivatives to corporate clients. A federal judge prevents the magazine from publishing the story for three weeks after Proctor & Gamble sues Bankers Trust for fraud. A federal appeals court declares the judge's order unconstitutional.

November 1996 – TheStreet.com begins running stories online after being founded by hedge fund manager James Cramer. It goes public in 1999.

1997 – The Wall Street Journal wins a Pulitzer Prize for its examination of the business aspects of the war on AIDS.

April 1998 – The Industry Standard is launched. Fueled by Internet company advertising, it lasts until late 2001.

June 1998 – Financial World ceases publication.

1999 – The Oregonian wins a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of how the Asian economic crisis is affecting a local company that exports frozen French fries.