ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides an overview of geography as an area of study and outlines foundational areas and debates relevant to journalism over time – physical, social, cultural, media, and the material turns. It focuses on critical examination of news media and their relationship to social surveillance and control in the spaces and places they serve. The book also outlines the demarcation of space and news zones. It explores the symbolic and "imaginative power of place. The book highlights several methodological approaches to examine the geographies of journalism from anthropology that crosses physical and digital terrain to affective and critical cartography, critical and reflexive studies, and border studies. It concludes with a discussion of the challenges ahead for journalists as place-makers in a period of rapid mobility and change.
