Source Passports

How to read a passport

Up to six sections, each answering one question. A passport shows the sections that apply to that kind of organisation: a party has no owners, a bank no state advertising. For news media in the EU, the first three cover what the European Media Freedom Act (Article 6) asks them to disclose.

1. 01 Who is it? Origin
2. 02 Who stands behind it? Control
3. 03 Who pays? Money
4. 04 Where does it appear? Channels
5. 05 How does it travel? Distribution
6. 06 Who is connected? Networks

Transparency levels

The level says how much of the key information about an organisation is on record. It is not a mark of quality: it measures what can be known.

Open

Every key disclosure for this kind of organisation is on record.

Partial

At least half of the key disclosures are on record.

Limited

Only some key disclosures are on record.

Not yet disclosed

None of the key disclosures is on record yet: nothing published by the organisation, nothing found in public sources so far.

What the labels mean

Verified

Checked by our researchers against the source listed.

Self-declared

Stated by the organisation itself and not independently checked.

Pending check

Collected from a public source, waiting for a researcher to check it.

Disputed

Contested by the organisation or contradicted by another source.

Not disclosed

No public information found yet.

On request

On file in the research layer; shown to approved requesters (free for journalists, researchers and public bodies).