ABSTRACT
The first section offers a critical historical and conceptual exploration of the distinction between financial journalism and business journalism, while the second and third sections specifically look at this distinction along the binary lines of modernity and postmodernity, and macroeconomics and microeconomics. The focus was initially the giving of information but, with the expansion of business in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, newspapers started to offer more critical coverage of business and economy. Yet the specialist journalistic beat that emerged to cover the buying and selling of goods and services has since faced a crisis of identity. As people will see in the literature on reporting business, finance and the economy reviewed in this section, this specialist professional journalistic beat has been variously referred to as business and financial journalism, thus bringing the two different, and yet overlapping concepts, together, while in some other cases it is referred to separately as business journalism, or financial journalism.
