Online subscriptions

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!

 

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...

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

NYT, WaPo, LAT, WSJ

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

 

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.

 

I have The Athletic. That's it.

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

 

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.