The Top Internet Dating Reporters in 2020, According to Online Personals Watch

COURTLAND BROOKS - Mar 6 - Each year we take a look at which reporters have received the most coverage on Online Personals Watch. Here's our rankings for 2020.

1. Sarah Perez, Tech Crunch

Sarah takes first place again, for the 3rd year in a row now. We linked out to 15 of her articles on OPW last year. She is a tech writer for Tech Crunch for 10 years now, and previously wrote for Read Write Web. She covered a wide range of topics last year. New apps' features and statistics among them.

2. John Scott Lewinski, freelancer
John is a freelancer who writes for a number of outlets. One of them is Forbes. We summarized 12 of his articles last year.  He was usually introducing new dating apps or their features.

3. Anna Iovine, Mashable
Anna is a culture reporter for Mashable. Last year, we linked to 11 of her articles on OPW.news. She wrote about new dating apps, features, covered statistics, and surveys.

4-5. Natasha Lomas, Tech Crunch
Another long term reporter for Tech Crunch and a name that already appeared multiple times on this list. Last year, we used 5 of her articles, 3 of them covering the big guys - Facebook Dating and Tinder.

4-5. Ashley Carman, The Verge
Ashley is a reporter for The Verge who covers podcasting, dating apps, social networks, and independent hardware startups. She's not new to this list, although we only used 5 of her articles last year, 4 about Tinder, the last one about Hinge. She wrote more, covering important industry news, we should note, we just found a different source for those first.

6-9. Julia Naftulin, Insider
Julia is a health reporter and advice columnist for Insider, her articles also appeared in Business Insider. We used 4 of them in 2020, 2 of them focused on how Covid-19 affected the way people are using dating apps, the other two covering new apps.

6-9. Josh Milton, Pink News
Josh is a news reporter for Pink News and previously Gay Star News. We linked to 4 of his articles last year, two of them on Grindr, one on Chappy shutting down, and the last one on Match.

6-9. Jason Aycock, Seeking Alpha
Jason is senior news editor at Seeking Alpha. We summarised 4 of his articles last year, most of them covering Match Group news.

6-9. Brian Womack, Dallas Business Journal
Brian is a tech reporter for Dallas Business Journal. We used 4 or his articles on OPW last year and he usually writes about Match Group (a Dallas based company).

10. Georgia Wells, Wall Street Journal
Georgia is a tech reporter for Wall Street Journal and writes regularly about the internet dating industry for years now. 17 of her articles were summarised on our blog over the last 5 years, 3 of them last year.