Geographies of Journalism connects theoretical and practical discussions of the role of geotechnologies, social media, and boots-on-the-ground journalism in a digital age to underline the complications and challenges that place-making in the press brings to institutions and ideologies.

Robert E Gutsche, Jr. is Senior Lecturer in Critical Digital Media Practice at Lancaster University, UK. His scholarship surrounds place-making in news as imposing social control. He is an author and editor of several books, including The Trump Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy (2018).

Kristy Hess is an academic of Journalism and Communications Studies at Deakin University, Australia. She is largely interested in researching the sustainability of local media in a digital era and its connection to place-making, boundary work, and power.

Introduction: The Power of Place-making and Journalism

Chapter 1: Mapping the Geographies of Journalism

Chapter 2: The Trichotomy of Place, Space, and Territory in Digital Journalism Studies

Chapter 3: Symbolic and Imaginative Power: From Doxa to Innovation in Journalism

Chapter 4: Demarcating News Space(s) in Digital News

Chapter 5: Who is Where? Complicating Power, Proximity, and Journalistic Authority

Chapter 6: Power, Place, and the Spatial Dialectic of Digital Journalism

Conclusion: Advancing the Research Agenda