“Wall Street Week,” the venerable program that has been around in one form or another since 1970, is moving beyond its usual focus on the ups and downs of the stock market.

The program, which was originally produced by Maryland Public Television and hosted by Louis Rukeyser, has long focused on interviews with prominent Wall Streeters. Starting Friday, September 20, the show will instead feature a series of enterprise stories drawn from the reporting of the journalism of Bloomberg, which currently produces the show and has aired it on its cable network and other properties since 2020.

“We thought we’d turn it from being interview-driven to being story-driven, more like a traditional newsmagazine,” says David Westin, the show’s host and a former president of ABC News, during a recent interview. A “60 Minutes” that specializes in business and economics? “I’ve asked around about it,” says Westin. “I’m not sure...