The imbalance between technologicalism，commercialism and political ecology has triggered information barriers and trust crises. In 2018，the Western media took trust as the main axis，returned to quality standard in content production，and presented innovative ways；it continued to upgrade in technology development，which promoted healthy convergence of media industry；weakened aggregate distribution platform’s and social media’s power in platfor’s decentralization，dispersed platform channels，and ease the crisis of trust；focus on online payment for readers in the construction of business models，and donations become an emerging growth mode under the shrinking of advertising. In general，in 2018，the Western media encountered information barriers of the information ecological environment. Faced with problems such as false information and data leakage，the Western media committed to improve their media literacy，and cooperated with the government and citizens to respond to the reliability of information. They strive to build a healthy and sustainable media ecosystem.