Most of the millennials I know get their news from online establishment news sites like the NYT, Washington Post, LA Times, etc AND more partisan online sources on either side of the political spectrum.
One great thing about having friends across the wide political spectrum is I can read relatively obscure extreme lefty and extreme right partisan news sites which would make Fox News or MSNBC seem quite staid and neutral in comparison.
Personally, I rely on establishment news sites like the NYTs, FB feeds of more obscure radical news sites on either side of the political spectrum, and a variety of international news sites ranging from the BBC to various East Asian news sites.
During late undergrad and during my early post college years, my daily routine before starting my work day would be to use yahoo news(early '00s) to read news articles from a wide variety of international news sites ranging from the BBC to the Daily Yomiuri…with main concentration on international and domestic politics as I was a politics minor and enjoy keeping up with it. Had to stop that habit as my workload/life responsibilities got in the way.
While I still do watch TV/cable news, it’s mainly as a form of brief entertainment rather than as a main source of news as it has become a bit of a farce at times(shouting pundits), their coverage can be quite narrow along with the spectrum of opinions covered, and repetitive content.
I get mine through FOX online, occasionally CNN. When I have the time, Last Week Tonight, The Late Show, NYT, and the Washington Post. For local news, I read the student newspaper that my school puts out.
follow a ton of news sites on twitter and facebook pretty much. don’t just follow the big liberal ones, build a range. get some international ones in there too, some local. get some conservative stuff you disagree with to get a more fuller view. that’s pretty much what i do. not too hard. people check their twitter/facebook all the time, for me at least, it’s cuz im checking the news or reading some article. i dont pay a single subscription.
to those that do pay a subscription to a news mag/app, why do you do it? what do you get that a free person won’t get? is it worth it? am i missing out? are the print magazine articles different (better) than the ones seen online on the same news website/journal mag? (example: harvard business review, the economist, WSJ, wapo, ect.)
i know there are read limits on several news sites but if you open the link in an incognito window it bypasses the read limit.
College student here. On a general day, I’d probably get my news from a combination of news apps that have push updates with notable news stories, esp the CNN app; NPR, that I listen to on my way to work or anytime I’m in the car really; Buzzfeed News (I feel the parents judging me on that already); following news/international figures accounts on social media (Twitter is great for real time updates); a couple of foreign language news outlets I follow because of my foreign language major;
I work at a graduate school - if our students get any news, it’s from some alert service on their phones. They certainly do get Amber Alerts … there was one on Commencement day & alerts were sounding all over the place!
Speaking of grad school, when one friend was attending orientation for his PhD program in Chem at an elite U, one of the pieces of advice given by some of the senior Profs to avoid getting too depressed was to minimize one’s consumption of newsmedia. Especially articles/stories dealing with negative topics/events in the world.
When I heard it from him, I asked if that Prof was joking or did he really feel that was legitimate advice to be offering to first-year PhD students in his department.
I’m an incoming college freshman, I get my news mainly from the New York Times and the Washington Post on my iPhone or on the computer. NYT is 4 dollars per month for students and the Washington Post is free for 6 months if you have Amazon Prime and only 4 dollars for every month after that. I think $8 dollars per month is more than reasonable that I can keep up to date on current events. Once I actually get to my college, I can receive the NYT free so I’ll drop that and only pay $4 dollars for the Washington Post.
I also watch Last Week Tonight when I can. I watch his online segments more frequently than the full show but I know a lot of my fellow millennials love his show and watch it on Facebook/YouTube.
Why is that so surprising, cobrat? Sometimes you just have to protect your own mental state. Instead of reading about, say, fifty murderered people and making yourself sad and angry when you can’t do anything about it.
I’m sure you don’t actually force yourself to read things you don’t want to read?
@NotVerySmart I love the NYT digital stuff because it is so well executed. Cutting edge, even. I do a far amount of forwarding NYT items to D16 as text links to her phone. But, I suspect a lot of those go unread. Which makes me recall all the newspaper and magazine clippings my own late mother had passed to me, with her nice cursive in the margins. Of course, how many of those did I read? Sigh. Sniff.
I think D16 will be able to get a NYT student discount. A subscription to just the digital content. Hmmm. (But I also think she can get access through her college library. I will check.)
@otoribashi When I’m blocked from a WSJ or other full text article because I no longer subscribe, I find that if I copy and Google the headline, I can usually land on a full-text access page somehow. Not that I like freeloading. But, the recession…you know.
“D just got a NYTimes subscription for free for 4 years through her college, so now she reads that ever y day.”
My son did also. I think many colleges have free subscriptions for NYT . I don’t know about other papers that might be available free to students but I think likely others are offered, too like WSJ.
My kid reads NYT and is big NPR listener. He was a pol sci major so it was important to him to keep abreast of the news.
He also listens to podcasts (Planet Money. 538, etc ) I only know this because he sends me links to ones I might be interested in hearing.
I have the NYT Now app which is free. You get the major breaking stories plus some more indepth stories. It also has the mini crossword puzzle, which I love to do because it’s timed. I play if to beat my time. 41secs has been my best so far.
My D is an avid podcaster, too, though I would classify that under getting * information * rather than * news * - in other words, deep discussions of topics, but not necessarily in the moment as they occur.
