Online subscriptions

[Matt1735]

How many online newspaper subscriptions do you have? I only have the Washington Post, which I got during the election and have retained it.

A lot of the articles referenced here are paywalled (which is their right, no complaint) ... but just wondering if most people can see all of the articles?

Matt

 

[Roscablo]

How many online newspaper subscriptions do you have? I only have the Washington Post, which I got during the election and have retained it.

A lot of the articles referenced here are paywalled (which is their right, no complaint) ... but just wondering if most people can see all of the articles?

Matt

As far as newspapers I only have my local one. There isn't a ton of content, but they are just about out only local newsource and what they do have is pretty decent and more and more put behind a subscriber-only wall. I have thought about getting rid of it but have kept going for those reasons.

I have an Athletic and a regional sports site's subscription, mostly because they guy who covers my school works his tail off and I do want to support him.

As for the Washington Post, if I work hard enough I can find a story that someone posts, but I find that it is the hardest to get content without a subscription of any out there. And people post links to it a lot!

 

[CD Boogie]

I subscribe to Apple News for $9.99 a month, which gets me access to a slew of great publications, including The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, New York, Vanity Fair, Texas Monthly, etc. I probably wouldn't enjoy reading such articles if I didn't have a new iPad, though. I hate reading long stories on a phone, but they're really enjoyable on an iPad.

I also have a joint digital/print subscription to the Wall Street Journal for $29 a month. I love reading the paper still and get most of my news from it and from WSJ phone alerts. Don't need much more than that.

I also have an ESPN+ subscription and a subscription to The Athletic.

BTW, ya didn't hear this from me, but getting around almost all paywalls is simple -- you just disable the java script in your browser. If your conscience can deal with it...

 

[rubenmateo]

I didn't have any subscriptions until meeting my partner, who has NYT and WSJ subscriptions that I now use. Before that, I always found ways to get around their paywalls and can still get around paywalls at other outlets most of the time. I've spent a lot of time in the UK. Their paywalls are stronger, but the Guardian is free, so less reason to pay for the Times or the Telegraph.

Before the NYT bought the Athletic, I did sign up for 2 or 3 of those $1/month Athletic subscription offers, mostly out of curiosity, and set calendar reminders to cancel before automatic renewal.

I've also done a month of ESPN+ once or twice to watch games, not for the written content.

 

[sgreenwell]

Boston Globe out of my own pocket, and the Houston Chronicle via work. ETA: I also get gifted Texas Monthly for my birthday or Christmas for the past couple of years, and it's a magnificent publication.

 

[dixiehack]

WaPo through March. Haven’t made up my mind if I will renew, but I did take it off autopay.

The Montgomery Advertiser online subscription should have expired when I did not give them my updated credit card info, but they haven’t been smart enough to cut off my access. (I checked just now for the sake of this thread - hadn’t looked in months.)

ESPN Plus is included with my Disney Plus bundle which is included with my Verizon plan.

 

[SixToe]

NYT, WaPo, LAT, WSJ

Also, the New Yorker, Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Texas Monthly and several other magazines.

 

[MTM]

I just switched from daily home delivery of the LA Times to online (with print version on the weekend) when my rate went up to about $70 month. I paid for the year what I would have paid for 16 weeks. I have online plus Sunday of the Riverside Press-Enterprise and have The Athletic, which I rarely read. I got a 2-year for $24 deal and they charge me $1 each month instead of taking all of the money up front.

 

[MileHigh]

NYT, LAT, Athletic. As soon as I sign up, I cancel/take off auto pay. If I'm missing it when it expires, I'll see what the rate is and decide if it's worth it. I get Denver Post through work, but not much meat on that bone and I wouldn't subscribe if I wasn't getting it through work.

 

[MNgremlin]

I have The Athletic. That's it.

Paywalls suck, as a deep-diving sports fan, btw. But I get it, obviously.

 

[Tighthead]

I’ve tried to do Texas Monthly and New York Magazine, but they charge a huge premium for an online international subscription.

Seems like there must be a workaround (maybe buy a prepaid Visa card in the USA?) but I haven’t bothered.

 

[playthrough]

WaPo, NYT, Athletic. Still mooching logins from an old job to read the local paper and city biz journal.

Interesting re: Apple News, I might have to check that out.

 

[justgladtobehere]

I’ve tried to do Texas Monthly and New York Magazine, but they charge a huge premium for an online international subscription.

Seems like there must be a workaround (maybe buy a prepaid Visa card in the USA?) but I haven’t bothered.

A VPN might do the trick. I have heard ads on podcasts saying a VPN is a way to get by local restrictions on Netflix.

 

[Tighthead]

A VPN might do the trick. I have heard ads on podcasts saying a VPN is a way to get by local restrictions on Netflix.

I think it’s my billing address connected to the credit card, or the credit card itself.

I should just get an American friend to gift me a subscription and pay them - that’s easiest now that I think about it.

 

[wicked]

Post and Times, although I suppose those could go because it seems like every library up here offers free access to one or the other. I did move to cancel both last year and as a result got half off from the Post and 75 percent off from the Times.

Globe and Herald because my mom is still a delivery customer and never uses her web access, although even she is starting to have second thoughts with the papers not showing up.

I did have The Athletic at $1 a month, but I just didn’t read it enough to justify it.

And I forgot, the Belfast Telegraph (US$3/month) so I can keep tabs on what’s happening across the pond.

 

[MeanGreenATO]

Local newspaper (which is a Gannett publication and is terrible), an NYT that I need to cancel (just don't read it, is a big luxury), The Athletic (for work), ESPN+ (to watch sports, written content is a bonus)

 

[wicked]

She has the Disney+ bundle to watch Mandalorian and other stuff, so I guess that too.

We get Peacock thrown in because we have Comcast.

 

[HanSenSE]

SF Chronicle, mostly for the Sporting Green, but when a good feature, political or news story catches my eye, I'll click it, and the Santa Cruz Sentinel, for local news and sports. I also get the dead tree edition of the latter, but the deadline is so effing early Friday night football doesn't hit print until Sunday.

 

[I Should Coco]

Local paper, which is free since I work there. Print and online.

The Seattle Times, online and the Sunday print edition. The latter is still a very good read.

 

[WriteThinking]

I have The Athletic, The Atlantic (probably my favorite), the NYT, and TV-wise, Paramount+ (for the Star Trek shows) and Discovery+ (for nature, documentaries and various other things I periodically like to watch). I had TIME magazine, the LAT, the OC Register and The New Yorker until recently, and am debating whether to re-start each/any of them up again.