Abstract

In her article, ‘Re-mediaton, inter-mediation, trans-mediation: The cosmopolitan trajectories of convergent journalism’, Chouliaraki explains, “Journalism is about doing things with words, not simply about using words to report facts. What journalism does with words, and indeed with pictures, is that it brings into being the community of people it addresses as its audiences. Journalism is, therefore, performative in the sense that it evokes or ‘‘performs’’ the very publics that it claims to inform” (p.268, 2012).
This performative paper will consider the role of ‘news’ as performance through travel. We will explore the role of journalist as performer and how embedding journalism is reporting as an immersive experience. This will be juxtaposed with personal and ‘travel-log’ experiences – detailing a re-reporting and re-representation of events in Athens according to my experiences of the ‘place’ at an-Other time.