Platforms which help to support journalism worldwide 2020

A report looking at trends in media in 2021 found that news organizations rated Google as the best platform for supporting journalism, with 59 percent considering Google to be either average or good at doing so. By contrast, just 32 percent said the same about Twitter, whereas Amazon was rated as being committed to supporting journalism by only eight percent of news industry leaders.

Attitudes to which platforms do the most to support journalism according to industry leaders worldwide as of December 2020

Characteristic	Percentage rating
Google	59%
Facebook	34%
Twitter	32%
Apple	22%
Snapchat	13%
Amazon	8%

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Release date

January 2021

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

November 29 to December 31, 2020

Number of respondents

221 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

percentage rating average or above on five-point scale (3,4, or 5)

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

Question: To what extent do you think that the following platforms have done enough to support journalism? Choose all that apply.
The source noted figures are low for Apple, Snapchat and Amazon partly due to large number of "don’t knows".

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