August 2000 – Bloomberg News becomes victim of Internet hoax by writing story based on fake news release.
March 2001 – Fortune publishes critical article about Enron by Bethany McLean.
April 2001 – Internet stock bubble bursts, ending decade-long period of often laudatory business coverage.
2002 – Maryland Public Television drops Louis Rukeyser, who takes his show to CNBC.
2003 – Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at the American Press Institute is founded. In February 2004, it unveils www.businessjournalism.org. In 2006, the Reynolds Center moves to Arizona State University
2004 – CNNfn goes off the air.
2004 – Dow Jones purchases Marketwatch for more than $460 million.
2005 – Fox News announces plans to launch new cable business news network. Fox Business Network launches in October 2007.
2006 – Many daily newspapers, including The Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Houston Chronicle, cut their printed stock listings.
2007–The Wall Street Journal unveils a major redesign that focuses its reporting staff more on analysis and exclusives.
2007 –Conde Nast magazines unveils Portfolio, the first major business magazine launch, in more than a decade.
2007 –News Corp., which owns The New York Post and other media properties, agreed to purchase Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Marketwatch and Dow Jones Newswires, for more than $5 billion.
2009 -- Portfolio folds. Its Web site is later taken over by American City Business Journals.
2009 -- Bloomberg LP acquires BusinessWeek from McGraw-Hill and renames it Bloomberg Businessweek.