A World on Demand: Geography of the 24-Hour Global TV News

The news is in our homes, our workplaces, and the landscape. The views of the world represented by 24-hour global news media have their own spatial dimensions. Given access to new reporting and analytical technologies, geographers are well equipped to study media impacts, especially those of cable, broadcast, and satellite TV news that purport to present all the news while it is happening. This chapter explores the geographies of news events, the history of media technology from the fixtures of the past to tomorrow’s personal communication networks, and concludes with a discussion of possible collaboration between geographers and media.