The evolution of media towards mainly digital platforms has provoked a long crisis in their financing, often resulting in them being absorbed into large industrial groups seeking political influence. In the North as in the South, economic models for independent news and information need to be reinvented. Read more about it in the eighth issue of our biannual publication, "Mediation", to be downloaded above, with interviews and testimonies of journalists and researchers, figures and maps to nourish the reflection, and to give leads for action.