Across the news media, nuanced reportage of specific places is declining while generic news about no place in particular ascends. In short, the importance of 'where?' - relative to the 'what?', 'when?', 'who?', 'how?' and 'why?' questions that with it comprise the fundamental template of journalistic investigation - is now much diminished. The sociological framework of Pierre Bourdieu, as applied to many fields of cultural production, including journalism, can be employed to illuminate power relations that have caused this to be. As a precedent to the approach of this current research, a handful of scholars who are also journalists have used Bourdieu's formulation of critical reflexivity to integrate, moderate and validate subjective analysis of their own journalism through consideration of objective power relations between their practices, field, and society. Recognising that such social dynamics do not transpire in a spatial vacuum, in the following chapters I build a bridge from Bourdieu's concept of social space to post-structuralism-influenced notions of place developed by geographer Doreen Massey. The resulting realisation that place for Massey, like social space for Bourdieu, is relational, contested, open though with porous boundaries, and always in the making informs an interrogation of three series of heterodox stories I wrote for commercial news outlets. The first series, for a regional newspaper in Western Australia's oldest European settlement of Albany, helped marginalised Indigenous voices to be heard on plans to authorise water skiing that had occurred unauthorised at a culturally significant lake. The second, for the same newspaper, elucidated aspects of Albany's protectionist retail trading regime, and was rebuked by local power brokers though commended in statewide media awards programs after gaining a measure of national media validation. The third series, for a metropolitan news website, informed a corruption investigation into the international travels of the lord mayor of the Western Australian capital of Perth. In engaging with these case studies from a critically reflexive inside perspective, I extend that approach from its application to date in a handful of longer-form journalism projects produced at universities to shorter news stories produced in commercial newsrooms - where most journalists are employed and tight deadlines can be an impediment to reflexivity. By incorporating Massey's work, I build upon Bourdieu's observations on place to show how its reflexive articulation might come to be regarded as a form of journalistic cultural capital, and hence distinction toward restoring the flagging 'where' question to one of vital importance in news journalism.