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22: 125:, radon contamination, weather forecast, traffic, or traveling routes; also describe a story of a battle, a geopolitical strategy, or an environmental threat. Geographers criticize journalistic cartography for deficiencies and constraints of map production. Maps in journalism are produced by graphic artists, who lack in cartographic training. 120:
concerns with a location of journalistic information. Use of maps becomes appropriate as "a map is an efficient means for showing location and describing geographic relationships". Mass media may use maps to show an event that have spatially distributed data like election results, the distribution of
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that constructs the newscape-generic locations that are interchangeable from story to story, and which have come to give a restrictive and distorted worldview". Lack of geographical balance in news coverage may lead to limitations of spatial knowledge, i.e., US media focuses on a limited number of
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Geographers have explored the spatial bias in news reporting. Spatial pattern of news is created by journalistic norms, which concern is national coverage, national interest, geographic stereotypes and accessibility to news events. As mass media provides live reporting from the scenes of the news
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Bendix, J., & Liebler, C. M., (1999). Place, distance, and environmental news: geographic variation in newspaper coverage of the spotted owl conflict. Annals of the Association of American geographers, 89(4),
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proximity. Capitals, major financial centers and politically unstable places are highly geographically stereotyped and considered as newsworthy locations where important events happen often Economic ties and
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Gilmartin, P., (1985). The design of journalistic maps/purposes, parameters and prospects. Cartographica: The international journal for geographic information and geovisualization, 22, 1-18.
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Gribok, M. V., (2008). Cartographic representation of mass media influence on the formation of the image of Russian regions. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, 5 (4), 41-46.
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Golan, G., & Wanta, W., (2003). International elections on the U.S. network news: An examination of factors affecting newsworthiness. Gazette,. 65, 25-39.
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Huxford, J., (2007). The proximity paradox: Live reporting, virtual proximity and the concept of place in the news. Journalism. 8, 657-674.
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Hoare, A., (1991). Making the news: spatial and non-spatial biases in British parliamentary reports of the Rowntree - Mackintosh takeover.
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Huxford, J., (2007). The proximity paradox: Live reporting, virtual proximity and the concept of place in the news. Journalism. 8, p. 670.
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Lewis, L., Degani, A., Hudson., (1980). The measurement and explanation of the spatial perception of Africa: a Nigerian viewpoint.
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Green, D. R., (1999). Journalistic cartography: good or bad? A debate point. The cartographic journal, 36, 141-153.
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Tichenor, P.J., Donohue, G.A., Olien, C.N. (1980). Community conflict and the press. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
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that states a Knowledge editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic.
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Monmonier, M., (1989). Maps with the news. Chicago: The university of Chicago press, p. 1.
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Monmonier, M.,(1989). Maps with the news. Chicago: The university Chicago Press, p. 1.
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Monmonier, M., (1989). Maps with the news. Chicago: The university of Chicago press.
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Walmsley, D. J., (1980). Spatial bias in Australian news reporting.
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events, journalism requires spatial proximity, event proximity, and
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Brooker-Gross, S., (1983). Spatial aspects of newsworthiness.
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When some news has an important geographic component,
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nations and regions for international news coverage.
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