What news outlets do you subscribe to?

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27 November 2023, 10:16 PM

ShiroKuro

What news outlets do you subscribe to?

I have a subscription to the NYTs and WaPo. Got one of those deals from WaPo, although I don’t really like it all that much…

Lately I find a lot of articles that I’d like to read that are in the Atlantic, and I can’t find a work around. They have a few subscriptions plans so I’m thinking about it.

Does anyone subscribe to the Atlantic? Do you like it? Recommend it?

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27 November 2023, 10:47 PM

piqué

I subscribe to the Atlantic. There are some really great articles in there. Also some garbage. But usually every month there is an essential essay.

Good news for you! An Atlantic subscription is half price for educators. Go to their subscription page and scroll to the bottom to find this. Also they have a one-month free trial and they even email you to warn you you are about to be billed so you can cancel first.

I have also the NYT, WaPo, and the New Yorker. If I had to choose between the Atlantic and the New Yorker, I would get the New Yorker. The best reporting of any of them.

28 November 2023, 06:28 AM

ShiroKuro

Thanks pique!

quote:
Also some garbage.

no doubt!

Re the New Yorker, I hadn’t thought about that one. Maybe bc I do seem to be able to get articles I want from the New Yorker and I must not be seeking to read New Yorker articles often enough that I come against their paywall.

Anyway I’ll poke around a bit more and try to compare them.

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28 November 2023, 03:14 PM

piqué

The New Yorker isn't constantly advertising with links to their stories on FB the way the Atlantic is. But take a look at both their coverage of Israel and the war in Ukraine. Spectacular.

Plus there are cartoons, humor pieces, and crossword puzzles!

28 November 2023, 03:33 PM

wtg

New Yorker subscription offers.

https://www.newyorker.com/v2/o...GE_BANNER_MIDTERMS_0

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28 November 2023, 03:52 PM

CHAS

I take the Wapo. Bob takes the Times.
Had a subscription to the Atlantic but there seemed to be too much carp I did not read.
I cancelled the Atlantic. It continues to send one or more emails a day.

28 November 2023, 07:04 PM

RealPlayer

I have the NYTimes in paper on Sundays (it’s so large that part of it gets delivered on Saturdays). But that also gets me digital access all week. I used to get Fri-Sat-Sun in paper, but I never got around to reading all of it.

I get WaPo digital access through my daughter.

We get the New Yorker through a (paper) subscription that a relative gives us every Xmas. But it’s only a 9-month sub because I guess that’s cheaper. So we miss out on some issues. And also, since I am not technically the subscriber (i.e. payor) I don’t get digital access (Boo!)

I should probably be reading some good online news sources. Somebody suggested Ground (?) Your suggestions are welcome!

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28 November 2023, 09:02 PM

Dan

WaPo, Times, Guardian, Daily Beast and two local papers (digital access). Almost all are on some kind of super deal like $5 per month for a year or something like that.

The only one I read regularly is Daily Beast. Go figure...

28 November 2023, 09:54 PM

RealPlayer

Tangential question: if you do have a hyperlocal newspaper but their reporting and other content is crap, should you still subscribe for the praiseworthy goal of keeping local papers alive? I am speaking here (in my case) of the Staten Island Advance (silive.com)

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28 November 2023, 09:57 PM

ShiroKuro

quote:
The only one I read regularly is Daily Beast. Go figure...

RP - re the local paper, good question. We haven’t subscribed to a local paper since we moved back to the U.S., but maybe we should… I need to look at the local paper’s online site…

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29 November 2023, 10:19 AM

kluurs

NYTimes
Wapo
WSJ
Chicago Tribune
Atlantic
New Yorker
Harpers
Wired

29 November 2023, 10:55 AM

ShiroKuro

kluurs, that's a big list, do you have paid subscriptions to all of those?

If I were only going to add one, which would you most recommend? (I already have NYT and WaPo, and I don't need WSJ bc I can get that through my uni library, unlike Atlantic, which for their online version at least, I almost always cannot get through the library)

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29 November 2023, 11:09 AM

Doug

I canceled the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times when I figured out I can access the digital versions for free using my local library card. I also get the New Yorker this way. I look at these and the Guardian most days.

29 November 2023, 12:34 PM

QuirtEvans

quote:
Originally posted by Doug:
I canceled the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times when I figured out I can access the digital versions for free using my local library card. I also get the New Yorker this way. I look at these and the Guardian most days.

That's a very useful tip. I currently get the NYT and the WSJ through an employer, but that may not be forever. I subscribe to the WaPo, simply because I felt like there was too much I wanted to read.

And I subscribe to the Athletic, but it's a trial offer that I'll cancel when it expires.

Everything else, I read only if it's free.

29 November 2023, 12:51 PM

wtg

To save money library access is the way to go. My library has pretty much all the ones named in this thread (including local newspapers), plus a bazillion magazines.

Between Libby, Overdrive, Flipster, and Pressreader, there's no shortage of reading material available...