While I don’t get a print version of the newspaper mainly because I didn’t want to be fussed with the remains (I read very fast), I did and still do read both the Seattle P-I and Times online, plus the Dope, blogs, BBC…
hi, my name is liz and I’m a news junkie.
I like to read the paper, but I never seem to have time to. I usually get my news via radio and internet during the week, sometimes on tv, and on the weekends I tend to read the paper when I have slightly more time to sit and drink my coffee and read.
My university offers free copies of three dailies (Indianapolis Star, New York Times, USA Today) to all students and faculty, as well as three local weeklies (Branches, Nuvo, indy.com) and the campus weekly. The dailies usually go fast, and nearly every student (covering the 20’s demographic handily) reads at least one of them. I do think it’s a bit of a shame that the NYT is the least popular of the three, and is the paper that runs out last.
Me? I’m past my 20s, unfortunately. And I come to school in the afternoon which means all those young whippersnappers tend to take all the papers before I show up.
I stopped reading the newspaper about a year and a half ago. Most of it was stuff I had read about the previous night online. Throughout my 20s, I liked to read the paper daily. Of course, I’m not in my 20s anymore, having turned 30 on my last birthday.
I read The Times every day, often checking once in the morning, once around lunch, once around quitting time, once at night.
Always online, never a physical paper.
Sentimentalism aside, the printed newspaper is a dead medium. The internet basically guarantees any printed paper will be beaten to breaking stories. Plus Craigslist and eBay have destroyed a major income stream - classified ads.
Reading a physical paper in a coffee shop - I agree, it’s enjoyable. But 95% of the time I can’t be bothered to do that. Plus I’m not going to pay for delivery when all of the relevant content is online. So, sad - but I suspect printed newspapers are going away.
/27 years old
Er, only if the inane student newspaper counts, I guess. The local paper is not of major interest to most of us because very few of us are from the area and don’t really give a shit who won the high school football game or whatever.
Ann Arbor is not exactly brimming with news. In fact, someone recently wanted to interview me for the local paper, about my professed (on Facebook) love for Indian food. That’s what passes for a news story in Ann Arbor, I guess: “University students like Indian food”.
If news websites don’t count, then I don’t (I’m twenty-six) and don’t know anyone in my age group who does. I have always found newspapers unwieldy, and it’s much easier for me to go to the NYT website than buying, folding, refolding, and disposing of a paper. I’d be willing to pay for an online subscription, but I don’t want to have to deal with the actual paper.
Same here.
Do you have a link to the article? It sounds very interesting and I’d like to learn more about your interest in Indian food. I wish the papers I read had such hard hitting stories.
I’m 23 and read the local newspaper every day. Most national news I get online, but nothing beats a little injection of local flavor. During my lunch breaks, I occasionally head out to a cozy restaurant and snuggle with the paper. Nothing like the rustling and finagling of the large sheets to find that perfect fold and size.
I read a number of newspapers every day, but online.
I’m 24 and I have a daily subscription to the Washington Post. Sure I can get the news online, but I’ve been reading the Post in paper form since I was in 7th grade so it’s just become routine for me. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
When I lived in Hamilton, I used to read the Spectator every morning, since I had the time to sit and relax and at least get through the first section before heading off to work (I worked later in the day, to avoid rush hour traffic).
Since I’ve moved to Montreal, though, I don’t get the paper anymore, though I’d like to. I just don’t have the time in the mornings, and I know I won’t take the time later in the day. I will often pick up the Metro newspaper at the metro station, though. A lot of people seem to read the free papers on the metro and buses.
I only read the papers online, except for my small town’s weekly, which doesn’t have much of a website, plus I know the editor/guy who writes 90% of the content and he is a cool guy. Physical newspapers aren’t enjoyable for me and just mean clutter in my apartment.
Apparently nobody’s reading newspapers anymore, or so they say. But whenever I’ve visited UCLA in the late afternoon, in recent years, I’ve noticed that the Daily Bruins are just about all gone. So it’s not as if the idea of reading a paper is totally foreign to young people. From my observation, people generally like reading about particularly local news. It might be enough to save print journalism, if the city newspapers can somehow tune into that.
I read the NYT everyday, but not in print. It costs money to read it in print and nothing to read it online, and that’s enough to swing the balance for me. I do miss doing the crossword, though. I’m 21.
I’m 33, and I also have been reading The Washington Post since childhood (thanks to my parents who have always subscribed) and I still love to read it in paper form, although I often read it online the night before (like after midnight). I also read the New York Times online every day too.
A paper newspaper will never die as long as people in my parents’ generation are still alive.