What Magazines/Newspapers Do You Subscribe To?

Gaf Zombie · Feb 4, 2019

As entertaining as ERA can be, I sometimes take a break to read other things like The Economist, which is the only magazine or newspaper that I subscribe to. That said, I've been getting a wandering eye after reading some great articles in The Atlantic and NYT. I wouldn't mind adding another subscription into the mix if the quality is consistent.

What does ERA subscribe to and why? BBC any good? What about the failing New York Times?

I remember as a child when my new Game Informer came in the mail and I literally just smelled that new paper/toxic chemical smell before gleefully opening up to read the letters from other gamers.

Deleted member 18944 · Feb 4, 2019

NYT and WaPo are the only outlets I subscribe to. As much as people on Era and elsewhere like to give the opinion sections of both publications shit and call for people to "cancel" them, the majority of their reporting is balanced and well researched.

Deleted member 1086 · Feb 4, 2019

Larry Flynt's Hustler

Skel1ingt0n · Feb 4, 2019

Motortrend
Autoblog
Popular Photography
Sound & Vision
National Geographic
Game Informer
Wall Street Journal

thefro · Feb 4, 2019

Wired and the local newspapers here.

NekoFever · Feb 4, 2019

Private Eye (a British satirical magazine). It doesn't really put stuff online apart from the occasional special report, and they do some fantastic investigative journalism that I'm happy to support. Plus it's hilarious.

Gaf Zombie · Feb 4, 2019

Dishwalla said:
Larry Flynt's Hustler

For the articles I'm sure.

Skel1ingt0n said:
Motortrend
Autoblog
Popular Photography
Sound & Vision
National Geographic
Game Informer
Wall Street Journal

Roughly what % of those magazines are you able to read? Do you have a public transit or no commute that gives you more reading time?

CatSoul · Feb 4, 2019

Haven't subscribed to a magazine since Nintendo Power. Have issues of OtakuUSA, Wired, and some literary/poetry magazines the library was going to throw out and gave me for free lying around.

Aaron D. · Feb 4, 2019

Just The New Yorker*.

I've also tried to keep up with The Economist off and on but holy s**t are their subscription rates expensive.

* Besides being a great mag, their white-hot hatred of Trump is a beautiful thing. Their anti-Trump magazine covers, seemingly every other week, are glorious.

Also got a NYT subscription, but that's online only so I don't get any physical copies.

lunarworks · Feb 4, 2019

CatSoul said:
Haven't subscribed to a magazine since Nintendo Power.

I had a subscription to that because you couldn't find it on newsstands. I haven't subscribed to anything printed at all since the '90s, and for the most I've always preferred going to a store and buying my magazines off a rack.

blast0rama · Feb 4, 2019

Wired and Empire (both on my iPad). Thinking about subbing, digitally, to the Baltimore Sun.

BringBackSonics · Feb 4, 2019

Gaf Zombie said:
As entertaining as ERA can be, I sometimes take a break to read other things like The Economist, which is the only magazine or newspaper that I subscribe to. That said, I've been getting a wandering eye after reading some great articles in The Atlantic and NYT. I wouldn't mind adding another subscription into the mix if the quality is consistent.

What does ERA subscribe to and why? BBC any good? What about the failing New York Times?

I remember as a child when my new Game Informer came in the mail and I literally just smelled that new paper/toxic chemical smell before gleefully opening up to read the letters from other gamers.

National Geographic
The Athletic
My local paper, The News Tribune.

It’s Time To Go · Feb 4, 2019

Edge gaming magazine.

Deleted member 1086 · Feb 4, 2019

Gaf Zombie said:
For the articles I'm sure.

the what now

Walter White Walker · Feb 4, 2019

None. The last ones I subscribed to were National Geographic and Reader's Digest but I let both of those run out about three years ago.

Wraith · Feb 4, 2019

I have a Washington Post digital subscription (discounted with Prime). Will pick up a copy of The New Yorker or The Atlantic or PC Gamer now and then.

smisk · Feb 4, 2019

Washington Post and The New Yorker. The Post is my main news source, and the New Yorker has amazing long form pieces, though I don't have time to read them as often as I'd like.

PassiveObserver · Feb 4, 2019

Used to have free or discounted subs to GQ, Wired, and TIME in the late 2000s. Nothing since. I do have a digital subscription to the local paper but I work there.

Directed by Fulci · Feb 4, 2019

The Washington Post and the New Yorker, which seems to be a fairly common combination here.

Skel1ingt0n · Feb 4, 2019

Gaf Zombie said:
For the articles I'm sure.

Roughly what % of those magazines are you able to read? Do you have a public transit or no commute that gives you more reading time?

I don't read any of them cover to cover. But there's usually at least ~2 articles in any of them that I flip through each month. Unfortunately, true long-form editorials and investigative pieces has almost completely disappeared in print journalism over the last decade (or more). I painfully miss learning the intricacies of a story facing a people or industry or company - but the only place I can seemingly find that is now in Netflix documentaries or full-blown books.

To answer your question, though, I can extract most of what I'm interested in from a magazine (a particular review or preview, maybe an editorial or two) in ~30 minutes or an hour. So that's only an hour and half of reading per week, max.

WSJ I just subscribe to so I have access to online news articles.

Distantmantra · Feb 4, 2019

The Seattle Times
New York TImes
Washington Post
Mother Jones
The Atlantic

Keikaku · Feb 4, 2019

Nothing. Internet made them obsolete.

Redcrayon · Feb 4, 2019

Just Private Eye
(UK fortnightly magazine, a mix of satire and investigative journalism)

Wulfric · Feb 4, 2019

ImagineFX (digital art and illustration)
Communication Arts (graphic design, marketing)

You Are Viewtiful · Feb 4, 2019

The Economist. Been eyeing a National Geographic subscription.

Unspoken90 · Feb 4, 2019

None, but I've recently started getting issues of Motortrend delivered to my house under my name. I haven't been charged, but I'm concerned.

thediamondage · Feb 4, 2019

Game Informer (gamestop pro membership benefit)
Smithsonian (my favorite toilet mag)
National Geographic
The Week (wife loves it, i think its not worth it but it does summarize the week)

don't pay for anything online reading or podcast wise, if its behind a paywall i ain't reading it

StraySheep · Feb 4, 2019

At the moment NYT International Edition, Edge, and Game Informer. Would be interested in adding another magazine to that.

Keikaku said:
Nothing. Internet made them obsolete.

One day you're going to regret feeling this way when they are all gone.

Dingens · Feb 4, 2019

Le Monde Diplomatique

Kevers · Feb 4, 2019

None. When I was a teenager I had all kinds of free subscriptions to OPM, PSM, EGM, Stuff, and Maxim from filling out online surveys and shit.

Addie · Feb 4, 2019

Just two:

Washington Post
The Economist

If Ars Technica ever erected a modest paywall, I'd consider that too.

ArtVandelay · Feb 4, 2019

Sight & Sound
The Wire

choog · Feb 4, 2019

news:
The Seattle Times (print! and online)
The Washington Post (online)
The New York Times (online)
The Guardian (online)
Wired (online)

I believe in journalism and am willing to pay for it.

entertainment:
Edge (digital)

Panic Freak · Feb 4, 2019

Washington Post
Time
Denver post.

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