Do you have a digital newspaper subscription?

[Elkins45]

It’s become almost impossible to find an actual printed copy of our statewide daily newspapers in my little town. The Lexington paper now only prints three days a week as they try to move their readers online. Do any of you have a digital newspaper subscription? Do you like it?

I prefer print for newspapers and magazines because physically flipping pages and browsing is much easier than doing it digitally, at least to me. Backpacker transitioned to online-only a couple of years ago and I cancelled my subscription soon after.

Does anyone still pay to read the news?

 

[spasm3]

No, not funding them at all if I can help it.

 

[mrsilv04]

The local rag charges $4 for a single printed newspaper at the gas station. That makes paying $17 a month for Fri/Sat/Sun printed and 24/7 online seem like a bargain.

 

[JavierH19]

No, why bother paying for biased disinformation when I can just make it all up in my own delusional head for free....

 

[maineiac]

We pay for online subscriptions to The New York Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal - publications which still operate by old school notions of journalistic integrity, including fact checking and who clearly delineate between news coverage and op/ed. Locally, we have a (paid) online subscription to the Bangor Daily News, a standout local news organization.

It took a while to get used to the online format (vs paper) but we quickly adapted and now prefer it and the accessibility and convenience/portability it gives us (your paper is always in hand if you have your phone and you can access any previous editions you care to.)

 

[4WD]

It’s become almost impossible to find an actual printed copy of our statewide daily newspapers in my little town. The Lexington paper now only prints three days a week as they try to move their readers online. Do any of you have a digital newspaper subscription? Do you like it?

I prefer print for newspapers and magazines because physically flipping pages and browsing is much easier than doing it digitally, at least to me. Backpacker transitioned to online-only a couple of years ago and I cancelled my subscription soon after.

Does anyone still pay to read the news?

No.

 

[Astro14]

Yes. Two, in fact. WSJ (print and on line) and NYT (on line).

 

[gman2304]

Yes, local print.

 

[Drifter]

No, And I doubt I ever will.

 

[eljefino]

Yes, WaPo. I used to subscribe to a more local paper but their paywall kept rejecting me as a paid customer so eventually I gave up.

 

[earlyre]

my parents do, as the local paper now only prints on Weds, and Thurs. the cost of the print subscription includes digital access to their daily "E-Edition"
and when they made the change to only 2 days a week, they also locked their website down behind a HARD paywall. and you can only link 2 email addresses to your subscription. anyone else in your household has to pony up for themselves.

 

[nomas]

I watch the news on TV and read it online at the TV station websites . I haven't bought a newspaper in years and I refuse to subscribe to their rag .

 

[Donald]

Yes. NYT, WP and WSJ.

Newspapers who employ journalists need to pay them and we should not expect to get all the news for free. Some of them do investigative reporting and they need to travel around while digging up facts.

I know many will pooh-pooh the papers I mentioned. But both the NYT and WP won a Pulitzer Prize in 2024.
Need I say more about the quality reporting of those papers?

 

[Triple_Se7en]

I have two Online subscriptions
Detroit News
Macomb (county) Daily

 

[2009Caraman]

I pay for Globe and Mail because its $1 a week for a year.

I don’t dont mind paying for news but I abhore the idea of needing an account for every service and them thinking they have a right to make a profile of me based on what I may or may not read. That rings true for video services as well.

I think a service that can anonymize that data while still offering the ability for paid access is long overdue.

 

[eljefino]

I pay for Globe and Mail because its $1 a week for a year.

I don’t dont mind paying for news but I abhore the idea of needing an account for every service and them thinking they have a right to make a profile of me based on what I may or may not read. That rings true for video services as well.

I think a service that can anonymize that data while still offering the ability for paid access is long overdue.

Check your local library-- If you can log into their website with your card they know it's you, but further accessing subscriptions the library has through this portal have a chance of being more anonymous. Ask your librarian, they geek out on this sort of thing.

I used my wife's login to get Alldata-DIY, to get info on her Prius I couldn't get any other (free) way.

 

[andrew_j]

The local newspaper yes. I’ll quit soon since eldest who captain of girls tennis and no 1 spot in HS tennis graduated. I liked articles on her and team.

 

[FordSVTGuy]

We do the Pottstown Mercy online. It’s very inexpensive and gives insight into what is happening locally….

 

[ripcord]

No, I don't pay for subscriptions. I have way more news content than I can ever consume via aggregated news feeds over RSS. It's like drinking from a firehose, frankly. If I ever find that I want to read something behind a paywall, I can usually wait a day and then go find it on an Internet archival site.

Limiting onesself to the mouthpieces of the major political parties like NYT, WaPo, and WSJ is just ensuring that most of what you see are biased talking points. Needless to say, my opinion of what passes for journalism today is not high.

 

[Pablo]

Yeah I better leave this one alone

This is actually an example getting worse than nothing for something you pay for.