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

Sunday papers yes. Nothing nicer than a long leisurely morning reading them.

I used to always read The Sunday Times, but it kept going up and up in price, so I decided to stop a few months ago. I do really miss having a Sunday paper to read though. Maybe I'll switch to a cheaper one.

I would go to the library every so often to read the papers, but then they stopped providing physical copies a couple of months ago.

So the only physical newspaper I read nowadays is the Metro, which I get pretty much every weekday.

I do love reading physical newspapers, but I'm on a very low income and I just can't justify the cost. Not when you can access any newspaper (even the paywalled ones) for free online.

I swapped from the Saturday Times to the iWeekend, partly due to cost but also because I wasn't getting through all the sections so it seemed to be a bit of waste paying a lot of money for something I didn't read. The iWeekend is £1.80 but if you like it, you can often get an offer where you pay for a discounted subscription and they send you vouchers for just the weekend paper each week and access to whole online site.

How can you access a pay walled paper online free?!

I'm 53 but I get the weekend papers delivered and have done so for 25+ yrs. I don't have time during the week but I like the luxury of reading the broadsheets at leisure over breakfast with coffee. Online reading is not the same experience which is also the reason I still have a physical magazine subscription going.

I buy our local paper whenever I’m in it! It’s a very, very small town and you don’t need to do much to see your photo in the paper 😁

Other than that, I have an online subscription to the NYT and haven’t bought a real newspaper in years. I actually think reading a newspaper would be good for my attention span and might go back to it.

I (hope) I’m well under 50 and also get a print newspaper at weekends.

We spend so much time on screens that it’s nice to have some time away reading in a more relaxing way. It’s also been shown that we take information in more effectively on paper.

I can see that newspapers aren’t really the fastest news source now, but imo they offer a different product and experience. I also think it’s good to come across a wider range of stories that you wouldn’t click on online.

I would recommend giving it a try if it’s something you haven’t done for a while!

About the Leicester Mercury, my local rag. In the 1980s and 90s, there was a morning edition, a evening edition and about 4 local editions - where about 5 pages were about district/small town of the area. When the Mercury photographer came to take photos of us at school, Brownies etc - you had no idea which paper it was going to be in. Then one parent found it and bought papers for each of the children in the photo.

I am over 50 now, but I've been regularly reading a newspaper since I was 18 or 19.

I stopped for a few years when the DC were small because DH would buy it at the station on the way to work. By the time he came home I was usually too knackered or had seen everything on the TV news anyway, so did little more than flick through it, so he stopped bringing it home.

Since we switched to having a newspaper app on our ipads (about 17 years ago) and the DC got older so I had more time, I went back to reading it daily.

I now pay for 4 subscriptions (Times, Telegraph, Spectator and most recently the Daily Mail, because all the decent articles were behind a paywall) and I glance over the Guardian most days but would never, ever pay for it.

I buy our local paper whenever I’m in it!

Ha! I was so entranced by seeing an article on some work I’d done in the fancy journal attached to my occupation that I took out an annual subscription. Of course I’ve never been featured again, rarely feel inclined to wade through all the tiny print and got to the point of not even opening the envelopes when they arrived in the mail. It was so expensive and a complete waste of money.

Never purchased a paper one in my life. I used to read them at my nans as she had them but I've just read online

I sometimes buy the local paper because the free version of the online edition is practically unreadable because of endless pop up ads and you can't get the full flavour of the gossip because you don't have all the coverage, just the main articles.

Reading between the lines for thinly veiled information that only residents can pick up on is great fun.

Me (43 years old). I buy the local broadsheet Saturday edition then alternate the Sunday Times/Observer on a Sunday. I obviously read the news online during the week, via various sites, but having physical papers forces me to read articles/subjects I most likely wouldn't actively click on.

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Yes! I do this too and I agree about the unreadable online version!

My son in law always starts the day by reading an actual newspaper. He reckons he gets a better overview quicker than he would online.

No. Used to buy the Sunday broadsheets many years ago but stopped once kids came along. Last time I bought a newspaper was for the NT free pass and was horrified at the price! I think the cheapest one was £2. In my mind it would have been no more than 50p lol.

I have online newspaper subscriptions and occasionally spring for an actual paper on a slow weekend.

I use to get one to read most days in my late teens/ twenties.

As op says

They're too expensive

I read them at the library when I take the kids

47, and I buy a Sunday paper every week and have done since I was a student. It's one of my favourite bits of the week - tea and the paper. I read things I definitely wouldn't think to click on online.

Me! I buy our local newspaper every Friday when it comes out. It used to be 50p about 10 years ago, now it’s £1.40.

I’m over 50 and haven’t read a newspaper for decades .

The digital version, yes.

The problem with print newspapers is by the time you get them any actual news is out of date.
I used to work in a shop selling newspapers. I'm not sure where our distribution centre was but we often received the early print run.
As a result we had the ones with headlines saying "Diana hurt in car crash" when it was already known she had died.

Only free ones if I’m on the tube. I used to love a Sunday paper but can’t justify the expense now.

In our 40s and 50s here and get a Saturday weekend paper. It’s calming to read on a bigger page without all the ads etc. and I’m much more likely to read things I might not have clicked on. Also like the magazine and cooking sections.

And importantly, it’s useful to have a stack of newspapers for balling up into shoes to dry them out, lay down to protect surface from mucky jobs etc. I find one weekly Saturday paper provides enough fodder for this.

We both look at news etc online all the time as well - but like mixing it up at the weekend. Also quite like getting a local paper occasionally - the local paper websites are practically unreadable, they’re so full of ads and popups.