Do you pay for news?

[TwinIon]

After reading about the new Aftermath gaming news site, it made me wonder how this community feels about paid news sites. I certainly understand why publishers are looking for subscription revenue, but at the same time subscription overload is very real.

 

For my part, I do pay for one (digital) newspaper, and I have access through my Wife's work to a few others. There are writers who I enjoy, but I haven't been convinced to actually sign up for a substack sub. We make a yearly donation to Wikipedia, but I don't think that really counts.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

I make a contribution to The Guardian (and Wikipedia), but that's the full extent to which I pay for news.

[GeneticBlueprint]

I paid for WaPo until recently. I switched to NYT. Not because I like NYT better, but because my work gives us these spend-o-bucks every month that you can spend on a website that gives various gifts, and a NYT subscription was an option there. WaPo was not. Realistically I'm only reading one newspaper at a time so I decided to save a few bucks per month.

[thewhyteboar]

Defector is the only website I pay for, but I wouldn't really call it news.

[Jason]

I'm not sure why I can't edit my vote but I accidentally voted for just direct subscription (Washington Post, Ars Technica) when I also get The Economist through work. Although I may stop paying for Ars Technica given how egregious their spamming of lists of random junk with Amazon affiliate links has gotten,

[Bacon]

No lol.

Philip DeFranco is the only news media I consume on purpose and I'd never pay for that content. He covers too much pop culture shit that I have to skip. Other than that, I see the major headlines on here and reddit. No reason to pay for anything. And if I had a reason I still wouldn't.

[mclumber1]

I have a subscription to nytimes.com through the college I'm attending.

[AbsolutSurgen]

I read news on ad supported sites and from government funded media.

[rc0101]

Bloomberg and the WSJ

[Spawn_of_Apathy]

These forums are free. So no. :P

[CastlevaniaNut18]

Washington Post, that's it.

 

Well, I do have some magazine  subs.

[Chris-]

NYT, Washington Post, WSJ (through school), Defector, and a pledge to my local NPR station. 

[marioandsonic]

Nope

[TheLeon]

A bought an annual Washington Post subscription because it was cheap, but any money was too much if I never read the damn thing. 

[CayceG]

3 hours ago, thewhyteboar said:

Defector is the only website I pay for, but I wouldn't really call it news.

 

Same. I'm also a Patreon subscriber for a couple podcasts, but they aren't really news. 

 

So I voted no. 

[5timechamp]

I do not, i get enough here… plus the bad news is what sells and at times some of it feels “overwhelming”… the bigger thing is that “everything” is seemingly a subscription or patreon thing.. picking and choosing is in itself exhausting

 

love that at least this is free and certain reddit forums arent full on toxic

[Nokra]

Accidentally only voted for "Occasional Gift", but I also have a WaPo subscription. 

[finaljedi]

I have a WaPo subscription, I was going to cancel but they had a pretty decent cheap offer to stay.

[Keyser_Soze]

Not really no. And one could say Giantbomb is a news site now and I was a premium subscriber for a long time but I stopped because the app was broken so I would have to go to youtube and youtube has ads so there was no reason to pay anymore.

 

I have plenty of patreons but none are news related. (Well I guess Nextlander and Jeff Gerstmann read the news so news in that way I suppose)