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
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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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. (January 7, 2021). Attitudes to which platforms do the most to support journalism according to industry leaders worldwide as of December 2020 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1249618/levels-of-support-for-journalism-by-platform-worldwide/
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. (2021). Attitudes to which platforms do the most to support journalism according to industry leaders worldwide as of December 2020. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1249618/levels-of-support-for-journalism-by-platform-worldwide/
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