Every day. I read two newspapers everyday, one at breakfast and one at lunch. While I rely on the internet most of the day, I cannot and will not ever give up reading a hard copy.
This morning. Five mornings a week, it’s 50 cents in the honor box and roll into the Loop on the Green Line with the Sun-Times, the straphangers choice.
- Louis G. Atsaves - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 8:59 am:
This morning. There is still a little old school left in me but I notice that the hard copy papers still have more news articles than they post on their web sites.
The features (comic strips, crossword puzzles, etc.) also usually do not appear on web sites.
Home delivery of the Chicago Tribune. I read it mainly for sports and comics (Doonesbury, returning in about two weeks). Local coverage remains limited in that paper which is too bad.
I did recently cancel my home delivery of the NY Times, since I just can’t justify $50 a month for it. If I had enough time every day to go through it, that would be a good deal since it really is a great newspaper.
Having left journalism and now a teat-sucking bureaucrat just this year(whew!), I surprised myself how quickly I adjusted to not reading a daily paper. I used to read 3 every day, and on Sundays would drive to Staunton to buy an SJR (for Finke’s column and ads). My bathroom and office are now cleaner (at least clutter wise), I feel as informed as ever and I don’t miss them at all.
Although, to answer the question, I did pay a buck for a Saturday Tribune on the way to Michigan this weekend, but only because I didn’t have internet access.
When I’m home I read both daily newspaper and when I travel I always pick up the local newspaper. For my birthday my wife got me a years subscription for the weekend paper from Kansas.
Late March 2008. Bought a few copies of SJ-R solely for the birth announcement of my son.
- Rod sez I'm pork - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:13 am:
Sunday delivery of the NY Times. Although my wife just signed us up for home delivery of Red Eye because the boy selling the subscription was cute. What will the neighbors say?
I used to get the Sun Tribune in Spfld but they canceled delivery service about a month ago. By the way the SJR site has the smallest font I have ever seen/not seen on line.
Home delivery every day of the Trib. I like it for the SUnday coupons and Wednesday food section for the wife. I guess they are attempting to boost circ numbers by offering daily at a ridiculusly low price
I usually buy a paper if I am going to lunch by myself-As a matter of fact reading the paper and eating lunch are one of the highlights of my day-which is why I may need a life.
The day the San Jose Mercury News went online - in about 1995. I paid for the online subscription for as long as they charged, which wasn’t long. other papers, including the Trib, established some presence online soon after.
(And I’m not a young techie. Kids probably think I’m old enough to remember when the news was spread by heralds in the square.)
I do have hardcopy subscriptions to many news magazines and that probably won’t change until there is an electronic alternative that is lightweight and has a very, very long-life battery.
- Six Degrees of Separation - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:27 am:
There is one weekly in my area that is still not on-line, so I usually buy it if I’m in the neighborhood. Other than that, all my news reading is on-line. There is also a local paper that has restricted on-line access, but the full content is not worth the extra price of subscription, IMO.
2 weeks ago, for the crossword and puzzle. Buy Suntimes when I’m around a vending machine. SJ-R has all the news I read on-line the day before. Sadly, a worthless paper. Have you seen their classified section? What a loss in revenue.
Never. I’m 27 and by the time I really started following the news, most of the papers had online content. Besides, BBC, FOX, PBS, NBC, etc all have online video as well - So I don’t even have a television hooked up to cable/antenna.
daily home delivery of Tribune, News-Sun, Herald and WSJ. Gave up on Pioneer Press some time ago, as it’s 70% real estate ads, but considering a subscription to the Sun-Times for the upcoming season.
You miss a lot if you go only online; plus, I think the actual layout in the hardcopy can be important to understand if you’re interested in the possible significance to a candidate for a positive or negative story, i.e., is it on the front page or inside, above or below the fold, buried somewhere in a corner, or in a big spread with lots of pictures and sidebars.
We subscribe to the Trib… though they’ve tested our patience several times, it’s still worth it for the coupons (the daily subscription pays for itself).
We used to subscribe to the Daily Herald but after having it stolen too often, and encountering an incredibly rude customer “service” rep after one such incident, we canceled it and never went back.
I am also a Springfield Journal Register reader who buys the hard copy of the SUnday paper each week. I wish they did Sunday only delivery. Otherwise, I read the paper online. But I like to sit with my coffee on Sundays in a comfy chair and read the paper and window shop the ads.
home delivery of Sun-Times, Tribune. raised in a newspaper family, I learned to read using the Sun-Times. some kids had Dick and Jane; I had Kup and Ann Landers.
I also grab the Chicago Reader, New City, La Raza and Hoy. sometimes NY Times, Crain’s, Baseball Weekly, the Onion. I always sneeringly reject the free Red Eye they hand out at the el (newspaper with training wheels).
I don’t remember, but I think Carter was president and I had to clip out some articles for a report on him entitled, “Malaise Forever - Why the US Should Merge With Canada”.
I buy three papers every day - the Trib, the Sun Times and the Washington Post and of course I buy the Sunday New York Times. I have been reading at least three newspapers a day for most of my 54 years. My family always maintained multiple paper subscriptions and it is a custom I have kept up. I do read many papers online, but you can’t beat the feel or comfort of a newspaper. I do miss the old ink - loved the smudgie black fingers I used to get as a kid - although my mom wasn’t to thrilled with the fingerprints I would leave behind!
I usually buy the Sunday SJ-R, though mostly for the comics, ads, and coupons. I also subscribe to a local weekly paper, which offers more in-depth info on our community than the Springfield paper would care to offer.
This morning, but I will admit that I heard an show promo on WBEZ this morning that had me thinking about this subject. They had a newspaper hawker in the background shouting, “Final Markets”, which reminded me of the days when they did a final edition in the late afternoon, after the Daily News and Chicago Today went by the wayside. It made me think about how much information I get from the internet even though I’m a voracious reader of print. It made me fear the fate of the Sun-Times.
I buy a hard copy for myself extremely rarely, but I subscribe to the Brazil, Indiana newspaper to be sent to my grandmother in her nursing home (her hometown paper).
I drop 5 quarters for a Sun-Times and Tribune every single day. I will occasionally pick up the Daily Herald, but its layout format seems to be scrambled every single day, e.g. “What section is local news and/or the funnies in today?” Reading the paper shouldn’t be a chore.
I’ve tried home delivery, but one wet paper is too many.
I never — ever! — bought a paper until I was in my mid-twenties. A co-worker let me read the front section of the Trib while he did the crossword puzzle. It was back in the day when the Trib had arts coverage on the last page of the first section and I distinctly remember seeing a Greg Kot review of a show by the Jesus Lizard. I thought, “Wait a minute… They cover this kind of stuff in the paper. I’m actually interested in this kind of stuff!” And I started reading the Sun-Times after discovering Jim DeRogatis on the original incarnation of Sound Opinions. I then began reading each and every issue, starting with the funnies and working my way out.
My theory is if you can’t find a full dollar’s worth of information and entertainment in a newspaper, you are probably some kind of illiterate half-wit.
The last time I bought one was yesterday. I bought a Daily Herald because it includes my letter to the editor which asks police officers to give speeding tickets to as many speeders as they can. I buy a Tribune every Sunday.
Daily delivery of my local paper and occasional purchase of the NY Times when I’m travelling and away from my computer. (My local paper is the Washington Post; if/when I get back to Chicago it’ll probably be the Trib.)
- South Side Matt - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:24 am:
Today
I buy the SOuthtown to get local news. Also I like the newspaper to read items that I would not search for online.
My newspaper habit started when I became a delivery boy for the afternoon Atlanta Journal at the age of 12. Still gotta have a hard copy of a paper everyday, even if its the Southern Illinoisan. I read four or five others on-line….Trib, SJ-R, SunTimes. StL Post, sometimes the Nashville Tennessean or the Atlanta paper.
I get the Sunday Trib mainly for the puzzles in the Magazine and the ads. The news seems very stale by the time the paper comes. Capfax, Kos, Google News, Trib online, and the locals online (Herald, Chronicle, Southtown) keep me informed.
SJR delivered at home to be read at breakfast, Sun-Times picked up along the way to work to read about the White Sox mid-morning or over lunch, and the Chicago Trib is delivered to my office for reading when I can.
It’s hard to lug my laptop into my library - the bathroom - for newspaper stories review!!
Peoria Journal Star shows up every a.m.
I try to buy or borrow the Wall Street Journal most day
- There he goes again - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 11:05 am:
Every day, 7 days a week.
- the Other Anonymous - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 11:10 am:
Sweet Polly Purebred,
I gotta ask: where can you get hard copies of the Trib, Sun Times, AND the WaPost? I hope it’s someplace in Chicago or Springfield (not DC), because the online version of WaPo stinks.
Trib and WSJ daily in the driveway - NYT online, and when I travel, I always buy a local paper at the airport, for a sense of the neighborhood.
…and I’m a tiny bit too old to be called boomer.
- Rep. Ed Sullivan - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 11:41 am:
If my dog Storm didn’t enjoy getting the paper every for me every morning I might have cancelled my Trib. There is something relaxing though about a morning routine of coffee and the paper.
- Emil Jones' DHS Caseworker - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 11:44 am:
Get the Trib and the Bright One delivered to my house each morning, but I could live without them. The Sun-Times no longer has the late sports news and the Trib, well, it’s consistently underwhelming.
“There is something relaxing though about a morning routine of coffee and the paper.”
I’m hoping for that as a Father’s Day gift. Now, my typical morning is locate sports section of paper, read a half article, attend to one twin, read a bit, stop the other twin from feeding toys to the dog, read a line, give twins (who by this time realize that I have breakfast and look like birds with their mouths open) bites of my breakfast, read three lines, stop twin from poking Germ. Shep in eye, drink swig of coffee, and then rush out to walk dog.
Reading the paper and drinking a cup of coffee? That would be wonderful. My wife is very generous, but I’m not sure she is up for that though.
Last summer travelling through England. Our bus stopped at one of those roadside plazas and I picked up a copy of USA Today to check on how the Cubs were doing.
- Jake from Elwood - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 11:57 am:
Every Sunday I have to have my Tribune.
We get the local paper every week as well.
- digital generation - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 12:17 pm:
only on Sunday (for the ads). IMHO sp’fld local is mostly AP reprints.
Every morning WSJ and the local rag. Used to get the Trib, but the local distributor seems to have stopped getting it. Can’t find it anywhere in town. Prefer paper to online..more stuff to scan and easier to carry.
I’m an on-line reader.
Buy a hard copy once a month.
Mostly look at other folks’ hard copies.
The price of Comcast DSL one has to give up tradional newspapers.
Are you saying they still sell hardcopies of newspapers in Chicago!? Can’t ever see myself paying for another Chicago newspaper. Less than 5% of the content is either enlightning or useful. Read them on the internet for the local sports and sometimes the weather.
Pantagraph delivered daily. Read several papers online–Chi Trib, Sun-Times, WaPo, NYT, Boston Globe, Times-Picayune, Pontiac Leader, PJ-Star, SJ-R, Irish Independent, London Times, WSJ occasionally.
Local public libraries get hard copies of many of these papers, but I don’t always have the time to get there. Normal Public Library has less parking now that there is all this construction in Uptown Normal including a three-story parking garage.
Also, many public libraries have online subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals. You can get the info from your local public library along with the URLs and passwords so you can read them at home. Very helpful in that you get access to the archived issues. This is your tax dollars at work.
Both Barnes & Noble and Borders have daily papers national and international for sale or perusal in their cafes. Cost of coffees and other drinks are kinda high so that is a treat from time to time.
You people are driving advertisers, media buyers and media companies absolutely nuts because they don’t know where to find you.
There’s still a market for traditional print, but it’s shrinking and aging; there’s a growing, younger market for “new media,” but it’s hard to measure and establish value — plus it’s changing all the time.
By the way, advertisers value the young ones more, on the theory they have yet to establish brand loyalties. If they want to reach the AARP crowd, they figure they can just advertise on “Wheel of Fortune” plus local and network TV news.
The only advice I can give — don’t read the Red Eye on the train. People will judge you for that.
Belleville News-Democrat for the Glenn McCoy Editorial cartoons and local news.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Cardinals News
Wall St. Journal for real journalism and in-depth reporting.
- Dr. Reason A. Goodwin - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:20 pm:
I get the Sunday Trib mailed each week since they no longer deliver down here in Egypt. I used to buy the Post-Dispatch every day, but the price went up and the news hole got thin. We get a paper copy of the Southern Illinoisan at work, but I usually just read it online. I do get a local weekly in paper form.
I subscribe to the Panagraph but my wife reads it mostly. Then tells me about stuff I saw on the internet the day before. I do read the Sunday paper for extra odds and ends you won’t find online. Gasp! Non-political stuff at that.
We have two local papers delivered to the house daily - 7 days a week. We buy the Trib on Sundays. He starts with the sports; I start with the Editorial page.
It is a generational thing. The older you are the more likely you read a hard copy newspaper. I am 60 and read two a day. My son, 36, and my two daughters, 32 and 25, may have never bought a newspaper. Do your survey based on age and this will be true.
I subscribe to both the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Tribune. As a 30 something I also read newspapers online, but you can’t beat the skimability and portability of a print newspaper.
Today. Get the SJ-R at home and the hometown daily by mail. Trib and WSJ at work.S-T online-would buy it if it was delivered. IIS News Clips, the one redeeming virtue of CMS. (Sorry, Steve; as a fellow alumnus, I’m allowed to bash the place every now and then.) Like Schnorf, I’ve really cut back on how much of these I really read every day; it’s more of a skim, especially the SJ-R, which would be gone but for my family members who like the Sunday ads.
This is corny, but I learned how to read in part by picking up my late father’s discarded Tribunes; don’t think I’ll ever be able to give up the print Trib no matter how p***ed the lefties on the editorial page make me some days.
I used to subscribe to and read four papers daily, but cut down to save a few $$. Now I’ll buy on average one a day, depending on what catches my eye, cycling between the Trib, ST, one of the local papers, WSJ, or NYT, and skim through the rest on-line. I’ll subscribe again when my income goes back up.
I, like a few others, still enjoy print and see it as a leisurely thing to do. Reading the papers on-line seems more like a chore and I find myself skimming and skipping around much more and I hate the annoying pop-ups and even static ads overall because they seem more dumbed down and hokey.
As a matter of fact, I’d consider switching completely to on-line if the papers were nothing more than clear .pdfs of the hard copy. I guess I have a general dislike for reading the news off of web-sites because it’s too much effort to click click click. I’d rather turn a page.
I also have a general mistrust of websites. I can still easily spot a two-liner buried somewhere in a hardcopy, but have no patience to drill down more than one layer on a site or guess as to some designer’s idea of consistent taxonomy.
BTW (I hope you don’t mind my asking, Rich), how much of the newspaper “print” or on-line publication work is currently conducted overseas for “American” papers? I heard a rumor that alot of web design and/or layout, for example, is being done overseas now. Is that true?
Everyday I read the NYT and the Tribune…I dislike
getting my news solely from the internet…I do like perusing the Washington Post and the New York Daily News online …TV news is a joke…public radio is a thinking persons best car friend other than your IPOD…
Every day. I subscribe to the Springfield Journal Register - although I must admit I’m starting to look for another newspaper. They’ve went from “leaning liberal” to “now there’s no doubt we’re liberal”.
- Diamond Dog - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 8:55 am:
Every day. I read two newspapers everyday, one at breakfast and one at lunch. While I rely on the internet most of the day, I cannot and will not ever give up reading a hard copy.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 8:56 am:
This morning. Five mornings a week, it’s 50 cents in the honor box and roll into the Loop on the Green Line with the Sun-Times, the straphangers choice.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 8:57 am:
Everyday I buy the SunTimes, but read the the many other papers (local and national) on line
- He Makes Ryan Look Like a Saint - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 8:58 am:
I buy it on Sundays for the ads.
- Plutocrat03 - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 8:59 am:
Home delivery daily of one paper.
Considering going to weekends or Sunday only
- Louis G. Atsaves - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 8:59 am:
This morning. There is still a little old school left in me but I notice that the hard copy papers still have more news articles than they post on their web sites.
The features (comic strips, crossword puzzles, etc.) also usually do not appear on web sites.
- trafficmatt - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 8:59 am:
I have a daily subscription to the Daily Herald.
I get the Trib on Sundays, mainly for the ads and the comics. Otherwise, the Trib is fish-wrap.
- Dan S, a voter and Cubs Fan - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 8:59 am:
I get the SJ-r on the door step every AM. There are certain times a fella needs reading material.
- John Bambenek - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:02 am:
I buy one when I have a column in it for my “clips” folder… :)
- Gish - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:04 am:
When I post my comments on a hardcopy newspaper, I never seem to get any replies. I just don’t get it.
That said I got one 5 days ago but it was only for an obituary.
- Speaking At Will - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:04 am:
Being in Southern Illinois, I only have the Southern Illinoisan, which in my opinion leaves something to be desired in terms of content and accuracy.
Wish the Sun Times, or Trib would open up a southern branch.
To answer the question, I only buy the paper on Sunday, and why buy a paper when I can go to Capitol Fax!
- Skeeter - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:05 am:
Home delivery of the Chicago Tribune. I read it mainly for sports and comics (Doonesbury, returning in about two weeks). Local coverage remains limited in that paper which is too bad.
I did recently cancel my home delivery of the NY Times, since I just can’t justify $50 a month for it. If I had enough time every day to go through it, that would be a good deal since it really is a great newspaper.
- Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:06 am:
Having left journalism and now a teat-sucking bureaucrat just this year(whew!), I surprised myself how quickly I adjusted to not reading a daily paper. I used to read 3 every day, and on Sundays would drive to Staunton to buy an SJR (for Finke’s column and ads). My bathroom and office are now cleaner (at least clutter wise), I feel as informed as ever and I don’t miss them at all.
Although, to answer the question, I did pay a buck for a Saturday Tribune on the way to Michigan this weekend, but only because I didn’t have internet access.
- Dale Allen - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:06 am:
When I’m home I read both daily newspaper and when I travel I always pick up the local newspaper. For my birthday my wife got me a years subscription for the weekend paper from Kansas.
- Just Because - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:06 am:
Home delivery daily
- Tex - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:08 am:
About 2 months ago, needed to pack some glassware. ;)
- the Other Anonymous - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:11 am:
Home delivery of the Trib, and often I’ll end up picking up a Sun Times (not buying, mind you) when I get a coffee.
While I get the majority of my information from the internet, I love the feel of newsprint.
- This Guy - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:11 am:
Late March 2008. Bought a few copies of SJ-R solely for the birth announcement of my son.
- Rod sez I'm pork - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:13 am:
Sunday delivery of the NY Times. Although my wife just signed us up for home delivery of Red Eye because the boy selling the subscription was cute. What will the neighbors say?
- Anon - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:14 am:
Once a week. I have a new puppy and I always need to put newspaper down for him to do his business on.
- Las Vegas Kid - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:14 am:
I used to get the Sun Tribune in Spfld but they canceled delivery service about a month ago. By the way the SJR site has the smallest font I have ever seen/not seen on line.
- Belle - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:17 am:
2 months ago. It’s one of the ‘green’ changes I made. And no, I still don’t buy global warming. I just save the cost of 3 papers every day.
- Weary State Worker - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:17 am:
Last Sunday. I read several papers online, everyday, but like to sit and enjoy the Sunday paper. The SJR doesn’t do Sunday only delivery.
- Wumpus - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:17 am:
Home delivery every day of the Trib. I like it for the SUnday coupons and Wednesday food section for the wife. I guess they are attempting to boost circ numbers by offering daily at a ridiculusly low price
- cardinals fan - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:19 am:
3 papers a day delivered at home, sj-r, tribune and wall street journal, love the hard copy!
- short but slow - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:19 am:
Buy the Sun-Times Monday through Friday and most Saturdays.
- Anon - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:22 am:
I like to buy it so i can press silly puddy on the comics and transfer the drawing to the puddy.
- bored now - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:22 am:
we still subscribe to the tribbie, and i regularly get the nytimes if i’m too far away from the ‘puter…
- Garp - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:24 am:
I usually buy a paper if I am going to lunch by myself-As a matter of fact reading the paper and eating lunch are one of the highlights of my day-which is why I may need a life.
- Redbright - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:26 am:
The day the San Jose Mercury News went online - in about 1995. I paid for the online subscription for as long as they charged, which wasn’t long. other papers, including the Trib, established some presence online soon after.
(And I’m not a young techie. Kids probably think I’m old enough to remember when the news was spread by heralds in the square.)
I do have hardcopy subscriptions to many news magazines and that probably won’t change until there is an electronic alternative that is lightweight and has a very, very long-life battery.
- Six Degrees of Separation - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:27 am:
There is one weekly in my area that is still not on-line, so I usually buy it if I’m in the neighborhood. Other than that, all my news reading is on-line. There is also a local paper that has restricted on-line access, but the full content is not worth the extra price of subscription, IMO.
- BandCamp - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:27 am:
2 weeks ago, for the crossword and puzzle. Buy Suntimes when I’m around a vending machine. SJ-R has all the news I read on-line the day before. Sadly, a worthless paper. Have you seen their classified section? What a loss in revenue.
- Learning the Ropes - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:29 am:
Never. I’m 27 and by the time I really started following the news, most of the papers had online content. Besides, BBC, FOX, PBS, NBC, etc all have online video as well - So I don’t even have a television hooked up to cable/antenna.
- Team America, World Police - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:29 am:
daily home delivery of Tribune, News-Sun, Herald and WSJ. Gave up on Pioneer Press some time ago, as it’s 70% real estate ads, but considering a subscription to the Sun-Times for the upcoming season.
You miss a lot if you go only online; plus, I think the actual layout in the hardcopy can be important to understand if you’re interested in the possible significance to a candidate for a positive or negative story, i.e., is it on the front page or inside, above or below the fold, buried somewhere in a corner, or in a big spread with lots of pictures and sidebars.
- Steve - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:31 am:
This morning.
- Undercover - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:36 am:
I buy a Suntimes maybe every other week if I have some time to kill during the day. I can’t resist the salacious headlines.
- You go Boy - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:38 am:
12 - 18 months ago - haven’t missed anything but alot of junk ad’s, that would end up in the trash anyway, where it rightfully belongs’
- Rob_N - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:38 am:
This morning.
We subscribe to the Trib… though they’ve tested our patience several times, it’s still worth it for the coupons (the daily subscription pays for itself).
We used to subscribe to the Daily Herald but after having it stolen too often, and encountering an incredibly rude customer “service” rep after one such incident, we canceled it and never went back.
- dem in IL - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:39 am:
I am also a Springfield Journal Register reader who buys the hard copy of the SUnday paper each week. I wish they did Sunday only delivery. Otherwise, I read the paper online. But I like to sit with my coffee on Sundays in a comfy chair and read the paper and window shop the ads.
- Ghost - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:39 am:
14-months without a hard copy paper and counting.
The rest of you need paper’s anonymous :)
- cool hand - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:42 am:
home delivery of Sun-Times, Tribune. raised in a newspaper family, I learned to read using the Sun-Times. some kids had Dick and Jane; I had Kup and Ann Landers.
I also grab the Chicago Reader, New City, La Raza and Hoy. sometimes NY Times, Crain’s, Baseball Weekly, the Onion. I always sneeringly reject the free Red Eye they hand out at the el (newspaper with training wheels).
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:42 am:
I don’t remember, but I think Carter was president and I had to clip out some articles for a report on him entitled, “Malaise Forever - Why the US Should Merge With Canada”.
It got an “A” from my JFK-worshipping teacher.
- moderate Repub - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:44 am:
Sunday
- Sweet Polly Purebred - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:46 am:
I buy three papers every day - the Trib, the Sun Times and the Washington Post and of course I buy the Sunday New York Times. I have been reading at least three newspapers a day for most of my 54 years. My family always maintained multiple paper subscriptions and it is a custom I have kept up. I do read many papers online, but you can’t beat the feel or comfort of a newspaper. I do miss the old ink - loved the smudgie black fingers I used to get as a kid - although my mom wasn’t to thrilled with the fingerprints I would leave behind!
- cover - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:46 am:
I usually buy the Sunday SJ-R, though mostly for the comics, ads, and coupons. I also subscribe to a local weekly paper, which offers more in-depth info on our community than the Springfield paper would care to offer.
- Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:48 am:
I would be curious about the age of those who still buy papers….
- Been There - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:49 am:
Sun-Times, Trib & Southtown Star delivered everyday. I will buy the State Journal Register when I am in Springfield and sometimes the St. Louis paper.
- Levois - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:51 am:
Whew, it’s been years! Although at home I do get a subscription, however, I rarely even read that.
- mmmmarshall - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:54 am:
I get the Trib, Sun-Times & NY Times delivered daily and skim a few others online. I am a news junkie.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:55 am:
They still make newspapers?
- chiatty - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:01 am:
This morning, but I will admit that I heard an show promo on WBEZ this morning that had me thinking about this subject. They had a newspaper hawker in the background shouting, “Final Markets”, which reminded me of the days when they did a final edition in the late afternoon, after the Daily News and Chicago Today went by the wayside. It made me think about how much information I get from the internet even though I’m a voracious reader of print. It made me fear the fate of the Sun-Times.
- Rayne of Terror - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:01 am:
I buy a hard copy for myself extremely rarely, but I subscribe to the Brazil, Indiana newspaper to be sent to my grandmother in her nursing home (her hometown paper).
- ahoy! - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:01 am:
Saturday
- so-called "Austin Mayor" - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:08 am:
Rich,
I drop 5 quarters for a Sun-Times and Tribune every single day. I will occasionally pick up the Daily Herald, but its layout format seems to be scrambled every single day, e.g. “What section is local news and/or the funnies in today?” Reading the paper shouldn’t be a chore.
I’ve tried home delivery, but one wet paper is too many.
I never — ever! — bought a paper until I was in my mid-twenties. A co-worker let me read the front section of the Trib while he did the crossword puzzle. It was back in the day when the Trib had arts coverage on the last page of the first section and I distinctly remember seeing a Greg Kot review of a show by the Jesus Lizard. I thought, “Wait a minute… They cover this kind of stuff in the paper. I’m actually interested in this kind of stuff!” And I started reading the Sun-Times after discovering Jim DeRogatis on the original incarnation of Sound Opinions. I then began reading each and every issue, starting with the funnies and working my way out.
My theory is if you can’t find a full dollar’s worth of information and entertainment in a newspaper, you are probably some kind of illiterate half-wit.
– SCAM
so-called “Austin Mayor”
http://austinmayor.blogspot.com
- Prairie Sage - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:08 am:
Trib, WSJ & neighborhood weekly at home. Ready to get the ST as well to keep it a two-paper town.
- Madison County Watcher - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:18 am:
They still physically “print” the news? What a waste.
- PhilCollins - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:21 am:
The last time I bought one was yesterday. I bought a Daily Herald because it includes my letter to the editor which asks police officers to give speeding tickets to as many speeders as they can. I buy a Tribune every Sunday.
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:21 am:
I think it’s been 2 years.
- Muskrat - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:22 am:
Daily delivery of my local paper and occasional purchase of the NY Times when I’m travelling and away from my computer. (My local paper is the Washington Post; if/when I get back to Chicago it’ll probably be the Trib.)
- South Side Matt - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:24 am:
Today
I buy the SOuthtown to get local news. Also I like the newspaper to read items that I would not search for online.
- OneMan - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:26 am:
Sunday for the coupons
- Deep South - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:27 am:
My newspaper habit started when I became a delivery boy for the afternoon Atlanta Journal at the age of 12. Still gotta have a hard copy of a paper everyday, even if its the Southern Illinoisan. I read four or five others on-line….Trib, SJ-R, SunTimes. StL Post, sometimes the Nashville Tennessean or the Atlanta paper.
- Lefty Lefty - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:29 am:
I get the Sunday Trib mainly for the puzzles in the Magazine and the ads. The news seems very stale by the time the paper comes. Capfax, Kos, Google News, Trib online, and the locals online (Herald, Chronicle, Southtown) keep me informed.
- Shelbyville - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:47 am:
every day.
- KGB - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:50 am:
Still subscribe to the S-T, although I don’t know why given it’s down to about 8 pages.
- Anon - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:50 am:
Every day, 3 papers. Trib, Sun Times, NYT and an occassional Wall St. Journal.
- Capitol View - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:56 am:
SJR delivered at home to be read at breakfast, Sun-Times picked up along the way to work to read about the White Sox mid-morning or over lunch, and the Chicago Trib is delivered to my office for reading when I can.
It’s hard to lug my laptop into my library - the bathroom - for newspaper stories review!!
And yes, I’m a dinasour - in my early 60s.
- Steve Brown - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:57 am:
Peoria Journal Star shows up every a.m.
I try to buy or borrow the Wall Street Journal most day
- There he goes again - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 11:05 am:
Every day, 7 days a week.
- the Other Anonymous - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 11:10 am:
Sweet Polly Purebred,
I gotta ask: where can you get hard copies of the Trib, Sun Times, AND the WaPost? I hope it’s someplace in Chicago or Springfield (not DC), because the online version of WaPo stinks.
- Rebel13 - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 11:12 am:
Every day for the Chicago Tribune since I was in High School. I am now 38.
- Wacker Drive - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 11:15 am:
Every Sunday
- Truthful James - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 11:19 am:
Seven days a week, home delivery.
- countryboy - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 11:27 am:
Trib and WSJ daily in the driveway - NYT online, and when I travel, I always buy a local paper at the airport, for a sense of the neighborhood.
…and I’m a tiny bit too old to be called boomer.
- Rep. Ed Sullivan - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 11:41 am:
If my dog Storm didn’t enjoy getting the paper every for me every morning I might have cancelled my Trib. There is something relaxing though about a morning routine of coffee and the paper.
- Emil Jones' DHS Caseworker - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 11:44 am:
I subscribe to the Trib, buy the S-T every day.
- Mr. Cub - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 11:46 am:
Get the Trib and the Bright One delivered to my house each morning, but I could live without them. The Sun-Times no longer has the late sports news and the Trib, well, it’s consistently underwhelming.
- Skeeter - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 11:47 am:
“There is something relaxing though about a morning routine of coffee and the paper.”
I’m hoping for that as a Father’s Day gift. Now, my typical morning is locate sports section of paper, read a half article, attend to one twin, read a bit, stop the other twin from feeding toys to the dog, read a line, give twins (who by this time realize that I have breakfast and look like birds with their mouths open) bites of my breakfast, read three lines, stop twin from poking Germ. Shep in eye, drink swig of coffee, and then rush out to walk dog.
Reading the paper and drinking a cup of coffee? That would be wonderful. My wife is very generous, but I’m not sure she is up for that though.
- tubbfan - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 11:51 am:
Last summer travelling through England. Our bus stopped at one of those roadside plazas and I picked up a copy of USA Today to check on how the Cubs were doing.
- Jake from Elwood - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 11:57 am:
Every Sunday I have to have my Tribune.
We get the local paper every week as well.
- digital generation - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 12:17 pm:
only on Sunday (for the ads). IMHO sp’fld local is mostly AP reprints.
- zatoichi - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 12:49 pm:
Every morning WSJ and the local rag. Used to get the Trib, but the local distributor seems to have stopped getting it. Can’t find it anywhere in town. Prefer paper to online..more stuff to scan and easier to carry.
- decaturvoter - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:03 pm:
I’m an on-line reader.
Buy a hard copy once a month.
Mostly look at other folks’ hard copies.
The price of Comcast DSL one has to give up tradional newspapers.
- Little Egypt - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:04 pm:
Daily and save them to soak up water in the garage or pack stuff I buy at a weekly auction.
- Reality Check - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:25 pm:
Are you saying they still sell hardcopies of newspapers in Chicago!? Can’t ever see myself paying for another Chicago newspaper. Less than 5% of the content is either enlightning or useful. Read them on the internet for the local sports and sometimes the weather.
- Nearly Normal - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:28 pm:
Pantagraph delivered daily. Read several papers online–Chi Trib, Sun-Times, WaPo, NYT, Boston Globe, Times-Picayune, Pontiac Leader, PJ-Star, SJ-R, Irish Independent, London Times, WSJ occasionally.
Local public libraries get hard copies of many of these papers, but I don’t always have the time to get there. Normal Public Library has less parking now that there is all this construction in Uptown Normal including a three-story parking garage.
Also, many public libraries have online subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals. You can get the info from your local public library along with the URLs and passwords so you can read them at home. Very helpful in that you get access to the archived issues. This is your tax dollars at work.
Both Barnes & Noble and Borders have daily papers national and international for sale or perusal in their cafes. Cost of coffees and other drinks are kinda high so that is a treat from time to time.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 1:42 pm:
This is fascinating topic.
You people are driving advertisers, media buyers and media companies absolutely nuts because they don’t know where to find you.
There’s still a market for traditional print, but it’s shrinking and aging; there’s a growing, younger market for “new media,” but it’s hard to measure and establish value — plus it’s changing all the time.
By the way, advertisers value the young ones more, on the theory they have yet to establish brand loyalties. If they want to reach the AARP crowd, they figure they can just advertise on “Wheel of Fortune” plus local and network TV news.
The only advice I can give — don’t read the Red Eye on the train. People will judge you for that.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:07 pm:
I consider it my job not to be found.
- BIG R.PH. - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:16 pm:
Every day 3 papers.
Belleville News-Democrat for the Glenn McCoy Editorial cartoons and local news.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Cardinals News
Wall St. Journal for real journalism and in-depth reporting.
- Dr. Reason A. Goodwin - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:20 pm:
I get the Sunday Trib mailed each week since they no longer deliver down here in Egypt. I used to buy the Post-Dispatch every day, but the price went up and the news hole got thin. We get a paper copy of the Southern Illinoisan at work, but I usually just read it online. I do get a local weekly in paper form.
- Mark Johnson - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 2:57 pm:
I subscribe to the Panagraph but my wife reads it mostly. Then tells me about stuff I saw on the internet the day before. I do read the Sunday paper for extra odds and ends you won’t find online. Gasp! Non-political stuff at that.
- steve schnorf - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 3:04 pm:
Every day. That is down, though, from the 5 a day I read 10 years ago.
- puzzler - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 3:38 pm:
We have two local papers delivered to the house daily - 7 days a week. We buy the Trib on Sundays. He starts with the sports; I start with the Editorial page.
- Lefty - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 3:39 pm:
It is a generational thing. The older you are the more likely you read a hard copy newspaper. I am 60 and read two a day. My son, 36, and my two daughters, 32 and 25, may have never bought a newspaper. Do your survey based on age and this will be true.
- The Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 3:41 pm:
The Trib is on the doorstep each morning. I buy and read the Sun-Times every morning that I take the train (most weekday mornings).
If newspapers die, it won’t be my fault!
- Just the Facts - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 4:00 pm:
Every couple of weeks I may buy a paper on Sunday.
- Rhino - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 4:13 pm:
Sun-Times and Trib and Sunday NY Times home delivered
- Anon - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 4:39 pm:
I subscribe to both the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Tribune. As a 30 something I also read newspapers online, but you can’t beat the skimability and portability of a print newspaper.
- Doug Dobmeyer - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 4:51 pm:
EVERYDAY W/MY COFFEE!
- Stuck with Sen. CPA - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 5:50 pm:
Today. Home delivery of the Tribune and the Aurora Beacon-News.
- Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 6:31 pm:
Today. Get the SJ-R at home and the hometown daily by mail. Trib and WSJ at work.S-T online-would buy it if it was delivered. IIS News Clips, the one redeeming virtue of CMS. (Sorry, Steve; as a fellow alumnus, I’m allowed to bash the place every now and then.) Like Schnorf, I’ve really cut back on how much of these I really read every day; it’s more of a skim, especially the SJ-R, which would be gone but for my family members who like the Sunday ads.
This is corny, but I learned how to read in part by picking up my late father’s discarded Tribunes; don’t think I’ll ever be able to give up the print Trib no matter how p***ed the lefties on the editorial page make me some days.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 6:56 pm:
I used to subscribe to and read four papers daily, but cut down to save a few $$. Now I’ll buy on average one a day, depending on what catches my eye, cycling between the Trib, ST, one of the local papers, WSJ, or NYT, and skim through the rest on-line. I’ll subscribe again when my income goes back up.
I, like a few others, still enjoy print and see it as a leisurely thing to do. Reading the papers on-line seems more like a chore and I find myself skimming and skipping around much more and I hate the annoying pop-ups and even static ads overall because they seem more dumbed down and hokey.
As a matter of fact, I’d consider switching completely to on-line if the papers were nothing more than clear .pdfs of the hard copy. I guess I have a general dislike for reading the news off of web-sites because it’s too much effort to click click click. I’d rather turn a page.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 7:25 pm:
I also have a general mistrust of websites. I can still easily spot a two-liner buried somewhere in a hardcopy, but have no patience to drill down more than one layer on a site or guess as to some designer’s idea of consistent taxonomy.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 7:38 pm:
BTW (I hope you don’t mind my asking, Rich), how much of the newspaper “print” or on-line publication work is currently conducted overseas for “American” papers? I heard a rumor that alot of web design and/or layout, for example, is being done overseas now. Is that true?
- Loop Lady - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 7:47 pm:
Everyday I read the NYT and the Tribune…I dislike
getting my news solely from the internet…I do like perusing the Washington Post and the New York Daily News online …TV news is a joke…public radio is a thinking persons best car friend other than your IPOD…
- Loop Lady - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 7:48 pm:
and I like to read the International Herald Tribune for the Euro spin on the news of the day and the London papers for gossip…that’s all…
- Frank Sobotka - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 9:08 pm:
I read the Prairie Pravda* every Thursday, but I haven’t paid for a newspaper in at least a year, and then maybe a year before that for the last one.
(* Illinois Times)
- Duke - Tuesday, Jun 3, 08 @ 10:02 pm:
Trib every day. Wall Street Journal weekend addition.
- Jechislo - Wednesday, Jun 4, 08 @ 8:47 am:
Every day. I subscribe to the Springfield Journal Register - although I must admit I’m starting to look for another newspaper. They’ve went from “leaning liberal” to “now there’s no doubt we’re liberal”.