Are there people under 50 who regularly read a newspaper

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I have not read a newspaper in years. News is reported as it happens. Sometimes when the reporter has bare bones information.

Just dip into the news on internet.

Plus newspapers are so expensive. To buy a national newspaper every day plus the local newspaper costs £22 a week. My local rag is £2 a day and sometimes the headlines was online 2-3 days ago.

I say in ten years time there won’t be any newspapers

Me.

Me, I get at least one newspaper every weekend.

Me. I have it delivered every day. I love it, it’s like getting a little gift. It’s expensive but not as much as you’ve quoted. Think I pay £60 a month for a broadsheet. Every year they try and out it up, every year I ting and say I’ll cancel and they keep the same price.

I do it because I like to stay informed, I don’t watch the news and I like the kids to see me reading.

I do, but just on a Saturday. I read things that I would never click on, so it definitely helps me get a more rounded view of what's going on in the world

I see a lot of people on public transport reading the Metro - but probably because it's free.

I am going me of these people and so is my son who uses the tube for school. I told him it counts as his daily 30 minutes reading so he does it.

Me. Not enough time in the week, but two papers at the weekend.

I'm 60 and I haven't bought a newspaper in years, maybe 14 years now.
My mum and dad get a newspaper at the weekend because they like a crossword but they get all their news on line.

Wow, £60 a month! I have a few subscriptions to weekly or bimonthly political magazines and haven't paid more than about £150 for a year's supply, I think. The challenge is reading them as fast as they turn up - I wouldn't cope with the price nor the rate of dailies!

I buy a weekday paper every so often but we haven’t bought the Sunday papers for years,

I think the change from paper to print would be fine if the on-line versions had remained upstanding, independent, and basically truthful sources of news. Unfortunately this is no longer the case and it’s hard to know where to go for unbiased, objective reporting.

Edited to say: I am a lot older than 50!

I stopped getting The Sunday Times and Observer during covid and now just use the apps. It's not as good but saves on recycling. I do miss having all the pages spread out with a coffee.

I was actually about to cancel my Times subscription because it's a bit Daily Mail sometimes, but when I called to cancel they said I could keep it for £6 per month, so I did.

Am just over 50 though so not very useful for your research 😀

You say read a newspaper - rather than asking how people might access a newspaper.

I no longer buy print newspapers but I access (either via subscription or free) The Times, The FT, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The New York Times as a minimum every day. Plus other UK or international papers intermittently whenever I want. Obviously not reading every single article in any - but following what I perceive to be the main news agenda of the day - with the benefit of live updates. This is supported by news from the BBC, Sky, Al Jazeera, etc, etc.

I’m over 60. My parent did the same via iPad until they were over 90 and still finds it easiest to access non-UK newspapers online rather than in print.

But I don’t know if you were asking about ‘proper’ newspapers in print v online or actually about which sources people turn to for news. If they follow the news at all.

We get the Weekend FT. I love a broadsheet spread out on the table, and I want my children to have a newspaper about the house.

The Weekend FT in print is the thing I miss most about my current paperless existence. I agree it was a joy to have spread out on a Saturday morning. (There was a time when I used to take a child to a Saturday class and it was the best company whilst waiting for them.) But for me it’s a slippery slope to the point where I can no longer see the floor …

I read the one in the canteen at work and I read the papers every Sunday when I go to my parents

Wrt to bias: I would give up on seeking perfect independence in a single writer or even a single paper. But I think there are some great editorial teams out there who have decided to give a platform to both sides and that is a very good compromise and probably even better than claiming to be a cornerstone of media objectivity like the BBC does, as it's basically signed up to a lifetime and £millions' worth of multi-sided flagellation (not that I don't appreciate the principle). So the New Statesman, for example (under the wonderful Hannah Barnes' influence), is very good on sex and gender. It's been at times a little self-consciously sycophantic towards Starmer, but I'm sure that will even up over time.

I get the iWeekend, mainly because I like the puzzles, lifestyle features and, mindblowingly, a printed TV listing. But it's also good at summarising the week's news, including snippets from a wide range of other publications across the political spectrum.

Some of us care about accuracy way above speed. 'News' on social media can be anyone writing whatever crap they like, I'd not take any notice of it than to see that something has happened and then read about it somewhere reputable.

I have membership to a library that gets all the main newspapers in, so I tend to pop in at least once a week and read some of them then. I don't have a subscription to any at home though.

The only people I see buying a newspaper are well over 70.

I am over 50 and not read a real newspaper for years, probably 15 or more. I am interested in keeping up to date with the news so read online several times a day.

My son.

And until last year, me!

(I still read the newspaper but am not longer under 50).

I rarely buy a newspaper and am 62. I used to read the Saturday Guardian and The Sunday Times (no time in the week for a paper), but get my news from the radio, TV, online apps and social media nowadays.

I'm in my 60s but never buy a paper, I use PressReader app, free through the library

We buy in to line the rabbit run 😂 ex print journalist but I read everything online these days.

I am just under 50 and haven't bought one in years.

Both my DF and DMIL are in their early 80's and still get their respective local newspapers everyday although both are a lot slimmer than they used to be (the papers, not the people).

DF also has an online Telegraph subscription though but DMIL won't touch anything like that.

Me.