Journalists have been incorporating geographic space into their news work for centuries (Carey, 1987; Tuchman, 1978; Gasher, 2007; Mersey, 2009). The location of where the fire occurred, the parade took place, or the soccer match was played has always been a part of the story. However, in the process of incorporating geographic space into the story, how does that location of the news event matter to the news reader? Using the theoretical framework of Spatial Journalism (Schmitz Weiss, 2015), this study explores the perception of geographic space and how journalism might perpetuate existing notions of their definition of news in a geographic space (Hess & Waller, 2015) which combats the reality of what the public may identify as news near to them. Based on a national online survey administered to U.S. adults in fall 2017, the study finds that perceptions of proximity of news differ from existing journalistic structures.

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新闻学难题：感知位置和地理空间规范与价值

几个世纪以来，记者一直将地理空间纳入其新闻工作中（Carey，1987； Tuchman，1978； Gasher，2007； Mersey，2009）。发生火灾，游行或踢足球的位置一直是故事的一部分。但是，在将地理空​​间纳入故事的过程中，新闻事件的位置对新闻阅读者有何影响？本研究使用空间新闻学的理论框架（Schmitz Weiss，2015），探索了对地理空间的认识，以及新闻学如何在地理空间中延续其新闻定义的现有观念（Hess＆Waller，2015），从而与现实世界抗争。公众可能会将其识别为附近的新闻。根据2017年秋季对美国成年人进行的全国在线调查，