Local journalist makes good: cultural geography and contemporary journalism.

Journalists practise journalism, not geography. Nevertheless, this paper argues that journalism plays a key role in the representation of space and place, landscape and the built environment and as such is profoundly implicated in the meanings and values that its publics attribute to these representations. This link between journalism and geography has significance not only for the way we theorise (ie, investigate, analyse and understand) journalism but also for the way journalism is taught and conducted. Furthermore it is suggested that journalists' constructions, perceptions and mediations of space and place will become more significant; as local and regional identities assert themselves within the global-local nexus and as the related notions of community and citizenship give impetus to an emergent public journalism.