ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents a conversation of journalism studies about geography as it stands in both traditional and new ways of making news. The imagination is a powerful influence on our social policies, personal interactions, and the practice of journalism, so much so that the daily process of place-making in our own lives and in the most banal of news stories becomes embedded, normalized, and made to be less than obvious. The book encourages a "feet on the ground" approach to studying journalism, to understand the interplay between physical, digital, and virtual worlds and how this all relates to news media. Digital journalism has extended the role of journalism creation to the citizen in ways that are not generally considered "citizen journalism" but that depend on the perceptions of digitally connected observers of news to contribute to dominant media messages of events, spaces, and places.
