An IAMCR pre-conference
This one-day hands-on workshop for contributors to the Global Media and Internet Concentration Project and invited guests will be held at the Huston School of Media, University of Galway. It will consist of two parts.
Morning: Who owns the media? Josef Trappel, Tales Tomaz and Andrew DeWaard will use GMICP data on industry concentration as the basis for analyzing ownership concentration. Trappel and Tomaz will use one prominent European media ownership group to show how to use public sources to reconstruct media ownership chains. deWaard will discuss his research on financialization in the media industries and use GMICP data for the top 10 or 20 media groups in select countries as the basis for analyzing the equity ownership in them using the financial software package Refinitiv.
Afternoon: Piercing the corporate veil. This will be another hands-on session led by GMICP members who have had some success in filling gaps in revenue, audience, and other industry data in a context where big tech and streaming media services rarely provide country-by-country or service-by-service data, making some of the fastest-growing areas of the digital media industries difficult to assess.
Date and time
27 June, 2026
09:00 to 16:00
Location
The Huston School of Media, University of Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland.
Participation and Registration
Participants from outside the GMICP can register to participate in this one day workshop by sending an email to either Dwayne Winseck (dwaynewinseck@cunet.carleton.ca) or Guy Hoskins (ghoskins@torontomu.ca).
Convenor
Global Media and Internet Concentration Project
Organisers
- Dwayne Winseck, Carleton University, Canada, Director of the Global Media and Internet Concentration Project (GMICP)
- Guy Hoskins, Carleton University, Canada, Vice-chair of IAMCR's Communication Policy & Technology Section
- Roderick Flynn, Dublin City University
