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Founded in 1990 as the newsroom attached to Bloomberg's financial terminals, and owned by Michael Bloomberg. Its coverage of markets, companies and economic policy is among the deepest anywhere.
Its business and financial reporting is trusted across the political spectrum and read by people who need to be right about money. The unavoidable complication is its proprietor: a former mayor and presidential candidate, whose newsroom adopted explicit restrictions on investigating him and, during his campaign, his rivals.