Online subscriptions

[wicked]

I canceled the Post a couple weeks back. Load of good it does for me, since the annual subscription had just renewed. I get that it's merely virtue signaling, but it made me feel slightly better.

 

[John]

I canceled the Post a couple weeks back. Load of good it does for me, since the annual subscription had just renewed. I get that it's merely virtue signaling, but it made me feel slightly better.

I did the same, along with getting rid of my Prime membership. I've surely saved some $$$ since I'm not buying a bunch of crap I don't need and wind up giving to Goodwill or throwing away.

I only do NYT/Athletic as my subscriptions, plus an annual donation to the local alt-weekly that is hanging on for dear life but covers a lot of the city better than the local paper. I may also have a free subscription to the WSJ through my job with Big State U.

 

[LanceyHoward]

I subscribe to seven newspapers and eight magazines. I signed up for the LA Times and Chicago Tribune on the introductory offer but will cancel when they roll over to the higher rates. I also may subscribe to the Denver Post. There on-line subscription is so screwed up that I am not sure.

 

[playthrough]

I went down the Texas Monthly rabbit hole last night and realized this Pennsylvanian still has to get his first subscription in a while.

I think it's consistently the best longform out there.

I know I've mentioned it before, but this piece from 16 years ago tore at my heart and is one of the finest pieces of longform I have ever read.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/still-life/

Many years ago, in magazines' healthier days, my wife worked at Indianapolis Monthly and its sister publications were Texas Monthly, Cincinnati Mag, L.A. Mag and a few others. She'd bring them all home every month, and for a long time after she left I had a subscription to TM. Consistently great.

 

[jr/shotglass]

If anyone has a spare 45 minutes, the story I linked to is timeless.

 

[swingline]

K.C. Star for Chiefs coverage, although it was better before Sam Mellinger got a comms job with the Royals. Still, Vahe is always a good read. I still have access to the NYT because my children's mother had a sub through work at the university. I dropped the Post-Dispatch when they wanted to jack my rate up, so now I just see the headlines.

In younger days, I had subscriptions to a lots of magazines: Rolling Stone, Spin, Esquire, GQ, Details, SI and National Geographic. Maybe one more that I can't remember. I read each one cover to cover, but I haven't had a sub to any of them in years, decades maybe.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I signed up for a free month of a New Jersey Gannett paper when I was researching & writing something a month ago. Meant to cancel before the first month kicked in ($24.99) but of course I did not. Just went there to cancel and got six months at $1/mo. Worth it if I ever need it for researching/writing purposes again. Just gotta remember to cancel in June (I won't).

 

[sgreenwell]

I'm down to Texas Monthly (still great!) and the Boston Globe. Like it still, but with the baby in the picture, I don't really have time to keep up with the news back home besides occasional glances at the Rhode Map.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I have Apple's News+, which is ridiculously low considering all the things it centralizes — including The Athletic but not the Times.

 

[playthrough]

I have Apple's News+, which is ridiculously low considering all the things it centralizes — including The Athletic but not the Times.

That looks amazing but I fear I'd never put the phone down or crack another book.

 

[MileHigh]

I have the N.Y. Times/Athletic for pretty cheap. I get the Denver Post through work. Used to have the L.A. Times but it got too expensive.

 

[swingline]

Well, heck. Texas Monthly is $25 for a print and online subscription, so I subscribed. Their website has a ton of interesting stories. I wish I was good enough to work there.