This paper argues for theoretically conceptualizing geopolitical media spheres to understand contemporary communication and information processes including journalism in the current what some call “multipolar” society and world order. We understand geopolitical media spheres as competitive and conflict-oriented forms of mediated communication, dynamically operating in-between but still in connection with media globalization processes and national media systems. In this way, the concept of geopolitical media spheres provides a necessary to some extent regionalized or decentralized mode of understanding cross-border communication, in line with overall trends of polarizing de-globalization. We propose an extended mode of understanding national media systems’ involvement in cross-border conflicts and competition by focusing on the analytical framework of media geopolitical spheres. Media system literature is at a crossroad, which includes the discussion in media and communication studies and journalism studies that has been centered around media globalization vs. nation-state autonomy. The rise of such phenomena as hybrid warfare, and struggle for natural resources, has paved the way for deeper impact and importance of transnational media spheres in-between the global and national, driven by a geopolitization of information- and communication processes.