"While the Internet has offered the world unparalleled access to information, journalism as an industry is in crisis […] especially in Latin America, the possibility of making a living out of the desire to tell stories is increasingly shrinking. Media outlets suffer from the migration of private and public advertising to the Internet, a process that has empowered several intermediary companies that have almost monopolized the advertising industry. Hence, it makes sense to seek ways in which journalism as a paid, resource-intensive profession and business can survive amidst social, political, economic, cultural, and technological disruption. We also focus on the particular challenges in Latin American media systems, which often operate in a context of patronage, powerful media oligarchs, and the ever-important presence of a discretionary and arbitrary state." (p.2-3)