Behind Every Narrative, There’s Power. We Follow It.
MediaPowerMonitor maps the organisations and structures that shape information — who communicates, who stands behind them, how messages travel, and where power enters the information environment. We combine a free public directory and journalism with bespoke provenance analysis for clients.
Provenance Directory
See which organisations and information actors MPMONITOR maps. The public directory is a searchable index, not the full underlying research database.
Explore the directory →Stories & Findings
Read MPMONITOR’s current journalistic output: accessible stories often drawing on MJRC and partner research, alongside developments in media, information, technology and power.
Read the latest stories →Bespoke Provenance Analysis
Commission deeper work on ownership, money, channels, distribution, networks, historical change or a specific information problem. Each assignment is scoped and contracted individually.
Commission analysis →Start with who is in the information environment
The directory is the public window onto MPMONITOR’s accumulated mapping. It shows who we track and basic public links — while the deeper ownership, funding, relationship and analytical layers remain part of our research capability.
Who is really behind the information you encounter?
A single message can involve several layers. MPMONITOR’s deeper work connects them when a client needs more than the public directory can show.
The map gets more interesting when the dots connect
Companies, platforms and intermediaries rarely stop at national borders or sector boundaries. MPMONITOR uses consistent entity mapping to surface structures that are difficult to see when organisations are studied one at a time.
One group, many markets
Operators such as Orange, Telia and MTN recur across national information environments.
Infrastructure meets content
Some corporate groups combine connectivity, distribution and media assets within the same wider structure.
The intermediaries in between
Agency networks connect communicators with platforms, media and audiences across borders.
The same gatekeepers recur
Global platforms appear across otherwise very different national ecosystems.
Research, media and power — told journalistically
This is MPMONITOR’s current editorial output. These stories are free to read. They often translate findings from MJRC and partner research into accessible journalism, but also follow developments and ideas across media, information, technology and power.
The Language Trap: How MEPs Tell Different Stories About Ukraine Depending on Who’s Listening
Research into more than 80,000 posts shows how political messaging changes when European lawmakers switch between English and their domestic languages.
When Law Meets Political Reality
What comparative evidence across eight EU countries reveals about EMFA and media capture.
Read →When Independent Journalism Reaches Public Television
Recorder, TVR and the Romanian regulator converge in an unusual test of media power and institutional independence.
Read →ChatGPT Tells Users to Leave GoDaddy
An experiment asks what happens when an AI assistant becomes an informal adviser influencing consumer choice.
Read →The Quiet Takeover: How AI Is Rewriting Newsrooms and Academics
When machine authorship becomes invisible, provenance becomes an accountability problem.
Read →Europe’s Parties Under the Microscope
A year-long research effort turns comparative political data into an accessible ranking of European parties.
Read →Six questions sit behind the map
Provenance is broader than ownership. Understanding where information comes from means following several layers at once.
The public directory is free. The deeper provenance analysis is bespoke and paid.
MJRC can investigate ownership and control, funding, communication footprints, distribution systems, cross-border relationships, historical change and narrative pathways — tailored to the specific question a client needs answered.
Targeted provenance commissions start from €8,500. Larger country and cross-border studies are scoped individually and proceed under contract.More than a decade of accumulated mapping
MPMONITOR began by examining media power and the structures behind public narratives. As information systems changed, the mapping expanded to encompass platforms, political actors, telecom companies, advertisers, corporations, regulators and other intermediaries.
The present Provenance Database builds on that accumulated historical work. Not every organisation has been tracked continuously since 2015; the value lies in the growing ability to identify actors, reconstruct relationships and follow material changes over time.
This is historical content from MPMONITOR’s earlier journalism-focused phase. It is preserved as a legacy archive and is separate from today’s Stories & Findings and from MPMONITOR’s commissioned provenance work.