Follow the power behind journalism and public information
This site is built around the Media Influence Matrix (MIM), MJRC’s flagship programme for mapping power in the information environment, and the Global Media Finances Map (GMFM), a specialised MIM subproject spawned from its work on ownership, funding and economic power.
Media Influence Matrix
MIM examines regulation and policy, ownership and funding, and technology, platforms and AI infrastructure to identify the political, economic and technological forces influencing journalism and public communication.
Global Media Finances Map
Spawned by MIM’s ownership and funding research, GMFM maps corporate identity, ownership, financial performance and market structure across media companies, technology platforms and AI firms. It operates as a specialised MIM subproject with its own methodology, database and data-access system.
One research programme, two clear routes
MIM provides the umbrella framework for understanding information power. GMFM grew out of MIM’s ownership and funding work as its specialised corporate and financial subproject. The two routes below lead into the broader MIM research system and the deeper GMFM company-data layer.
Influence, regulation and information power
Companies, ownership and financial power
What the data reveal
Selected public research shows how MIM and its GMFM subproject turn policy evidence, ownership records, company filings and information-system data into analysis.
Financial Signals Issue 13
Five FY2025 company filings — spanning US local television, Norwegian specialist publishing, Lithuanian media expansion, Romanian broadcasting and Hungarian independent journalism — show how differently journalism is financed across markets.
Read Financial Signals #13 →Google in Europe
GMFM reconstructs Google’s European company structure below Alphabet’s consolidated reporting, connecting local entities, financial filings and the wider corporate footprint.
Explore the Google dossier →Read the Europe study →
Start with a question
Different users arrive with different needs. These shortcuts lead to the most useful starting points for comparative research, historical reports and current company intelligence.
How does influence work in a country?
Start with MIM Country Research and move into the available regulation, funding and technology evidence for each market.
Explore countries →Which companies shape a media market?
Use GMFM’s redesigned country registries to identify national, regional and local operators and the companies behind them.
Browse media markets →Who controls information gateways?
Explore the platform, technology and AI companies influencing discovery, distribution, production and verification.
Tech Companies →AI Companies →
How did media systems evolve?
The Library of Reports preserves the first generation of MIM comparative research from 2017–2025.
Open the archive →How is the research built?
Read the current MIM and GMFM methodologies, including scope, data structures, inclusion rules and source standards.
MIM methodology →GMFM methodology →
Need deeper company data?
Request financial histories, ownership records, entity relationships or custom comparative analysis from the GMFM research base.
Request GMFM data →A flagship programme and its specialised financial subproject
GMFM was spawned by MIM’s work on ownership, funding and economic power. It remains a specialised subproject of MIM, while having its own methodology, company registries, financial datasets and data-access system. GMFM supplies the deep corporate and financial layer; MIM places that evidence inside the wider regulatory, political and technological structure of information power.
Researching power, journalism and the information environment
The Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) is an independent research organisation producing comparative studies, databases and analytical tools on media ownership, funding, regulation, technology and information power. The Media Influence Matrix is one of MJRC’s flagship research programmes; the Global Media Finances Map is its specialised corporate and financial subproject.
The Media Influence Matrix (MIM) is a flagship research programme of the Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC). The Global Media Finances Map (GMFM) is a specialised MIM subproject focused on corporate structure, ownership and financial power.