This introduction outlines the content and key ideas of Media Building, which explores the spatial politics of news media production from the nineteenth century to the present day. Specifically, the contributors to Media Building are interested in what the design, construction, utilization, redevelopment, and relocation of media “buildings” (an umbrella term used in relation to both whole buildings and production plants, and individual components such as personal offices, newsrooms, and other facilities) can tell us about the form and function of news media in both past and present. Taking its cue from Aurora Wallace and other scholars, Media Building interrogates the role of news media offices and corporate headquarters as “a chosen instrument in the battle for civic authority and public relations under the guise of public interest”. Concurrently, it explores narratives of media crisis, and considers how these “crises”—both real and imagined—have shaped how media enterprises have engaged with, utilized, and understood the spaces and places out of which they operate.