I read in a WSJ article that daily newspapers are closing at the rate of two a week, and that on average only 8% of households today subscribe. Are you one of those eight percent? What are your recollections of daily papers?
I read in a WSJ article that daily newspapers are closing at the rate of two a week, and that on average only 8% of households today subscribe. Are you one of those eight percent? What are your recollections of daily papers?
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No, cannot imagine why anyone would.
I still subscribe to my city’s daily paper. The paper has shrunk over the years, now it’s only two sections, one of which is mostly sports. My dad taught me how to read by reading the comics pages with me.
No. do you head to the town square to hear the town crier each day?
It’s ok to let old things die.
I subscribe to the eNews version – $10/month. It is an electronic reproduction of the daily newspaper. When I was in High School I delivered the Sunday paper. It was 70 miles and 70+/- papers. $125/month. I dropped the daily paper about 6 years ago. Delivery failed at least 1x per week and the price went up to $60/month.
I still get the Sunday edition of the New York Times. It’s a massive paper with a magazine and a luxurious tradition I can’t let go of. It also gives me access to all of their extensive digital offerings so it seems worth it to me. But no, I dont get the paper daily anymore. Just a PDF version that’s perfect for an ipad.
I subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, online only.
I had an online subscription to the Washington Post, but I cancelled it because of Bezos cowtowing to MAGA.
I get the NYT on paper, 7 days a week.
Nope. My dad was an editorial cartoonist for several newspapers. It was a very cool place to see as a young kid in the 70’s and 80’s. Walking through the newsroom. The sounds. Seeing the giant printing press. He took a buyout over a decade ago and is on Patron now. It’s kind of sad to see the loss of the local newspapers. Lots of malfeasance goes on in local politics and the fourth estate was a bulwark against that
We haven’t had daily newspaper in my area for years. I live kind of out in the sticks where the towns are 30- 35,000 people and those are spread kind of thin. We have a former newspaper reporter who is still reporting things on Facebook and going to meetings + posting minutes and notes, but that’s all that we have available.
God no.
I still read the e-edition of two newspapers. My recollection of the newspaper “back in the day” was that the Sunday paper was huge — full of “want ads” for cars and jobs and pets and furniture and legal ads and you name it. In fact it was so big that the news boys would deliver the funnies (we didn’t call them the comics) with the Saturday paper to reduce the bulk on Sunday morning.
I am a firm believer in truth in Journalism. I hate to see the day we read city news on Facebook
Our daily newspaper shriveled to two sections. The sports section was bigger than the news section. It was also very right-wing biased. So, no more newspaper.
No
I continued to get the Sunday paper for many years, just for the NYT crossword. (Lookin’ at you, Will Shortz!) After I moved several years ago and my routine completely changed, I canceled my subscription. I still do (various) puzzles online, but I don’t find it nearly as enjoyable as doing them with pen in hand.
We subscribe to the paper in our current town (digital) and the one in our hometown (print).
Not since the 90’s
I subscribe to three digital papers daily — I still get a paper weekend edition delivered.
I pay for my 92 year-old Mom’s daily paper. $60 freaking dollars a month for home delivery. There’s no Saturday print edition anymore.
It’s so small these days I call it the Daily Leaflet.
It’s a routine for her that’s worth the money to me. She needs her daily crossword, and puzzle books just aren’t the same. Plus the grocery coupons.
I tell her it’s only $20 a month, lol.
No. I get all my misinformation directly from tv and internet now.
No. The newspapers in my area used to contain much more useful/pertinent local news. Now a lot of the content is pulled from USA Today and the like.
I subscribe to the digital newspaper from the town I used to live in just to keep up on what’s happening back there.
Not since 2009.
New York Times, but it’s getting harder in our smallish city. The local daily no longer delivers except on Sunday so the other 6 days come by mail, at best a couple days late. Since we have a subscription, we can read it online, but it’s not the same thing as having it with your breakfast. It’s sad. The local daily which now belongs to Gannett isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on so we don’t get it any more.
Yes, it’s all digital now but I read it every day. Local TV News is kind of a joke.
No
Yes, a small local newspaper.
I quit all of them almost 30 years ago when I was missing a paper at least 25% of the time.
When I was a kid our household had 4 daily newspapers delivered because my dad was Mayor and had to keep abreast of everything happening, but mostly to read and laugh about criticisms aimed at him. I enjoyed the sports coverage.
I discontinued my local paper when the publishers fired their editorial cartoonist and replaced him with a syndicated one.
Yes. But i read the e-edition online
Our small town, bedroom suburb of a big city, hasn’t had a newspaper worth reading in 20 years. The local paper was bought up by an out of state conglomerate about then. They don’t even do home delivery now, they mail it to you…so you get fresh news about 4 days after it happens. So no.
No. Before the advent of Ipads I did subscribe and always read the news with my morning coffee, but now all the news is on the internet so why bother with paper.
I used to and still would, but I never got regular, consistent delivery after around 2014. I’m talking no paper and at least 4 days per week. Apparently they can’t get people to work delivering them.
I subscribe begrudgingly to The NY Times and the Washington Post. Why begrudgingly, you may ask? I have tired of their reflexive anti-Israel and antisemitic slant, especially the NYT.
I pick one up every Sunday. And I’d like to buy a nyt. Can’t afford that