A new edition of the Euromedia Ownership Monitor (EurOMo) is live with a redesigned search engine that lets journalists, regulators and the public trace media ownership and control across borders — including beneficial/ultimate owners and key decision-makers such as CEOs and editors-in-chief. Public webinar in March introduces new features.
EurOMo published an expanded database covering around hundreds of opinion-shaping media outlets across all EU countries with data from 2025. The database includes more than 700 media outlets, 4,300 people (owners and other controlling actors) and 2,100 organisations with stakes in these outlets. Users can explore results visually as a network map, filter by control relations beyond legal shareholding, and download data in a machine-readable format aligned with an open standard (BODS v0.3).
Whereas the full version is available to registered users with legitimate interest (journalists, policymakers, members of civil society organisations), the public version can be freely used by any citizen on the project’s website. In addition to the database, all users can read reports that focus on the specific situation of each country and compare risks between countries across dozens of indicators.
To introduce the latest version and all new features, a public webinar will be held in March in two sessions:
- Friday, 20 March 2026, 11:00 CET
- Monday, 23 March 2026, 15:00 CET
Any interested person can register for one of the sessions via the project’s website: https://media-ownership.eu/registration-for-webinar/.
The project has been funded by the European Commission since 2021, with the goal to strengthen media transparency and trust in democratic institutions.