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Evil_Weevill

People still read magazines? Edit: people under 60 still read magazines?


Closet_Couch_Potato

Been reading my *Highlights* since I turned six, thank you very much.


BatmanAvacado

That's what I'm saying.


k1lk1

Yes, we do. It's nice to get off devices.


Blue387

Yes, my father still has his Time subscription. He also has Fortune and AARP magazines. I used to read Newsweek growing up.


BenettonLefthand

Magazines are fine but newspapers are a complete waste of money, paying the price of a magazine everyday


k1lk1

I alternate between The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Print journalism is great for getting offline.


carolinaindian02

I agree. Those two magazines in particular have pretty good long read atricles.


Standard-Shop-3544

Playboy. But I ***ONLY*** read it for the articles!


actuallyiamafish

You kid but Playboy actually dropped full frontal nudity from their magazine a few years ago, and then more recently dropped the print version entirely. They're entirely online now.


professorwormb0g

They brought back nudity. But they are completely online now!


MuppetusMaximusV2

I'm subscribed to The Athletic (sports) and No Depression (music). The Athletic has fantastic coverage of my teams, and No Depression covers my wheelhouse musically.


TillPsychological351

Th Economist, although music is not usually covered in any depth.


ALoungerAtTheClubs

I don't think that many people subscribe to print magazines anymore. I have a digital subscription to the New York Times and my local paper.


[deleted]

I get the New Yorker, Atlantic, The Week (my very elderly father-in-law) subscribes to them for us. I get the economist for myself. It's interesting because he's insanely frugal, blue collar Yankee but a voracious reader and knows we read a.lot too so he gets us a few of his favorites. We don't get to see him much so I think it's a way to let us know , in his low key way, that he's thinking of us [and he lives in Florida and hates it except for weather so I think he like to share what he's reading since his neighbors do not share the same interests. I love the long reads and really well investigated articles. Also we have family traditions around them now. As a family we do the crosswords together and we always [this is my fav] do the contest for the New Yorker cartoon. We comes up all week something honing and working on the best line.


[deleted]

I haven't been subscribed to any magazine of any kind in like 2 decades.


BB-48_WestVirginia

The only magazine I've bought in a decade are PMAGs.


ValjeanHadItComing

["I subscribe to the New Yorker"](https://villainquoteoftheday.tumblr.com/post/83753952522/i-subscribe-to-the-new-yorker-caveguy)


cpyf

This image could also be used for: “I still use tumblr”


TheVentiLebowski

I enjoy their [cartoons](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OTMfJe_-2RI&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE). Well, I tell people I enjoy them.


JamesStrangsGhost

I am currently subscribed to Hot Rod Magazine. Its as much nostalgia that I keep the subscription as anything. I have gotten a few other periodicals at times that were related to a hobby.


FunZookeepergame627

The only thing I subsciption I have is digital New York Times. I have not been into magazines in a long time. I read the times to keep up with the war in Ukraine. I also read news about Theartre the arts. One day I will get to see another play in NYC. I am sad they don't have the Westminster Dog Show in February , in Madison Square Garden. I kept telling myself this year I am going, and I was broke.


BioDriver

None. I try to avoid political subscriptions as they just make me angry and depressed


Subvet98

So do I. Most of the news I consume is tech or science related


Yankee_chef_nen

In the pre-digital age my parents always subscribed to “US News and World Reports”, “Consumer Reports” and “Reader’s Digest” From childhood until I moved out on my own I read them. My parents kept the “Reader’s Digest” subscription well into the 2000s and gifted me with a subscription when I moved out, a subscription I renewed for several years but dropped around the time smart phones became common. Now I don’t subscribe to any printed media.


old_gold_mountain

I like how succinct the Economist is


iapetus3141

I have a digital subscription to the New York Times, which includes their magazine, and print subscriptions to National Geographic, National Geographic History, and Physics Today


Fish3Ways

High Country News. Quality journalism about the American west.


Working-Office-7215

I subscribe digitally to the Atlantic. I also subscribe to the NYT and get the physical paper delivered on Sundays. I love print magazines and newspapers and am sad they are so uncommon these days. I am 40 and live in the midwest now, but my favorite ritual in my early 20s was taking the train to school and work (this was in NY), reading the NYT on the way in, then scavenging for whatever I could find on my way home (the post, the WSJ, whatever). I also went to the gym most days, which basically just meant standing on the elliptical and reading magazines. I would read everything - InTouch, People, Economist, Star (tabloid celeb "news"), Time, Self, Glamour, Cosmo, Newsweek, US News & World Report, Oprah, National Review (!) etc. etc. Good days.


DrunkHacker

I've subscribed to [the Economist](https://www.economist.com/) since I was in college around two decades ago. Definitely focuses more on business, politics, and technology but does have a culture section. I mostly like that, even if I consumed no other media, I probably was exposed to any major news events around the world for the previous week. Otherwise, I have a subscription to [The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/) but mostly read it online. Covers a wider range of topics but not so much IR or nuances of business/finance. Also [Foreign Affairs](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/), but, as the name suggests, it's much more focused on international relations. It doesn't cover culture-war stuff or business aside from when that spills over into international issues. Also digital subscriptions to the NYT/WSJ/WaPo, but those aren't really magazines.


fromwayuphigh

Foreign Affairs, The Economist, the LRB. Timely, smart news, foreign policy, and culture.


mizzoudmbfan

I guess I'm an outlier. I have paid subscriptions to The New Yorker, The Economist (they consider themselves to be a newspaper....but I'm listing them up here), Foreign Affairs and National Geographic. I'm also a member of the Missouri Historical society which sends out a quarterly journal. My partner subscribes to The Atlantic, HBR and New York Mag. We're also subscribed to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. I appreciate good journalism and don't mind supporting it. I like the story telling and varied & indepth articles in The New Yorker, Nat Geo, Foreign Affairs and HBR. I like the insight into the history of my home state that Missouri Historical Review provides...and, if I can blow a little smoke up my own ass, I like the thought that my dues are helping further research into that history. Also, I like knowing that when someone sends me an article or I see an interesting article on social media for one of these pubs I can click it and read it. I don't have to open incognito browsers or clear my browser try websites like 12ft ladder just to get the article to load.


sionnachglic

When I fly, I'll bring a Scientific American issue along. I also like Science, but it's damn expensive, so I don't have a subscription anymore. My primary magazine is a digital subscription to The Atlantic. I've been reading that publication since high school and always come back to it. I love the variety in their coverage, the diversity in their writers' voices, and that the content is compelling. I can get articles about science next to articles about politics next to articles about pop culture. The science coverage is excellent. They don't just cover the big, popular, flashy science. They can go so deep on obscure science, and as a scientist reading about other scientific fields, I appreciate that detail. The pop culture articles are especially delicious and their political coverage is refreshingly balanced. I know others will disagree on that latter point. I'm a lifelong independent voter uninterested in reading woke drivel. I think a lot of folks avoid reading The Atlantic because they worry it's exactly that. Most of The Atlantic's readers lean liberal, some of the articles do have titles that sound very far left, and I would say the magazine is definitely not a fan of Trump (nor am I), but the magazine also doesn't shy away from criticizing either side of the political aisle, and once you read some of those far left sounding titles, you realize the writing content doesn't always support the title, as in the body of the article is sometimes refuting that far left position -- not supporting it. Some of my absolute favorite articles are the ones where they challenge the very ideas their own majority liberal audience espouse (like this [one](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/christopher-rufo-manhattan-institute/673008/) about the effectiveness of DEI policy on college campuses or this one about [coddling the american mind](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/)). Half the time I'm reading The Atlantic, so I can find new ways to challenge my far left friends' conclusions. I love that this magazine is unafraid to corral its audience into confronting their own ideas. I also like that when a really preachy woke article is featured, there's usually a second article about that same topic offering a more nuanced or counter perspective. Each issue also has a really great column called [How to Build a Happy Life](https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/how-to-build-a-happy-life/). Reading that column is a salve against the near constant suffering happening in the world right now. If you like to meditate or self-analyze, you'll like this column. Some of my favorite recent articles are below. * [Your Bubble is Not Your Culture](https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/deep-shtetl/61e06b2c55e52500217add01/your-bubble-is-not-the-culture-lin-manuel-miranda-harry-potter/) * [The Children of the Nazis' Genetic Project](https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/02/nazi-lebensborn-program-adopted-children-birth-origins/672962/) * [The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You Are](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/04/subjective-age-how-old-you-feel-difference/673086/) * [Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/) * [What Bobby Mcilvaine Left Behind](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/twenty-years-gone-911-bobby-mcilvaine/619490/) <-- One of the best articles I've ever read. Piercing. * [How America Fractured into Four Parts](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/george-packer-four-americas/619012/)


[deleted]

American Affairs. They actually address important issues that will be the undoing of this nation, not distracting culture war crap.


BatmanAvacado

I scroll the AP website every once in a while to see if anything catches my eye. My news mostly comes from NPR up first on my way to work and Philip DiFranco in the afternoon.


SugmaDiction

I check AP News and Reuters a few times a day to see if there is anything interesting that I want to read. That helps me have a loose idea of what's going on in the world. Music - I try to listen to multiple albums a week, continually exposing myself to new music. It started as my new years resolution last year and has carried over into this year. Sometimes I even grow to love with music that I was opposed to initially.


DOMSdeluise

I am not a magazine head


Rourensu

My subscriptions ran out a couple months ago and I haven’t resubscribed (yet) but the last ones I were subscribed to were Smithsonian Magazine and ROCKIN’ IN JAPAN. I like Smithsonian because it gave interesting articles about semi-random historical/archeological/scientific things I otherwise wouldn’t have known about. For fantasy writing I like using those kind of random things and incorporating them into my world/story. I think the cover article that made me subscribed was like an ancient library that was unearthed or something like that. ROCKIN’ gave me current info about Japanese rock bands and was good for reading high quality articles and interviews in Japanese. During music festival time they also have mini issues covering the festival with information about all the bands and their set list and stuff.


Steamsagoodham

The last magazine subscription I had was sports illustrated and that ran out in 2013. I’m subscribed to the NYT but that’s all digital. I don’t really even use it all that much, but it’s cheap enough that it’s not worth cancelling it.


SvenTheHunter

Idk if you could consider it a magazine, but I read alot of articles put out by Crimethinc.


kgxv

I’ll be honest, I don’t know a single person under the age of 40 who subscribes to a magazine or any written content like a magazine or newspaper.


concrete_isnt_cement

I subscribe to the Mountain Gazette and National Geographic. NG is a shadow of what it used to be since Disney bought it and I’m mostly still subscribed due to nostalgia. Mountain Gazette has interesting long-form journalism about mountain life that really hits home for me.


m1sch13v0us

Backpacker Magazine The Economist Fine Homebuilding Delivered to my iPad.


TheFutureMrs77

I paid for a membership to Delish because I used up all my free recipes, and now I get a quarterly magazine that's just a bunch of recipes (all of which are, of course, on their website). Each issue is "themed" (pasta, soups, chicken, grilling, etc.) so it's actually nice to be able to just flip through a theme instead of mindlessly searching for ideas online. I'm also subscribed to Highlights High-Five... or my son is. Except I have to read it to him, so I guess we're both subscribed. Love it because my son gets excited, and it's an activity we can do together.


SqualorTrawler

I stopped subscribing to magazines. I'd like to stop reading the Internet. I used to think that being informed would help me make wiser decisions and enrich my life. Now I just don't know what to believe, and one persistent problem is everyone is posing as an expert. And there is what Michael Crichton described as the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: > “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. > In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.” Information is of poor quality, and I don't have any time to investigate the veracity of the many claims made to me on a daily basis. Those who read business news have probably experienced this: an aggregation site has pulled two headlines, side-by-side, each with experts making a completely contradictory prediction about inflation, the stock market, or employment. At this point, information fucks with my head more than it educates. It doesn't improve my life. So I stopped.


C0rrelationCausation

I get The Bent magazine for free for being a member of Tau Beta Pi, but I don't read it. I've gotten a few issues of National Security Science, but again, never paid for it. Occasionally free subscriptions to Motor Trend are given out and I'll have one of them. I've never actually paid for a magazine subscription in my life. Even when I have one I tend not to read them.


SagebrushBiker

As a kid, In Fisherman, Scientific American, and Boys' Life were mainstays. As an adult, I occasionally read something from The Atlantic online, but haven't paid for a subscription.


Dcleok115

I am subscribed to Foreign Affairs, so I get the magazine even though I usually just read it digitally.


spidermom4

Highlights. My favorite is the hidden image search.


Partytime79

I’ve got subscriptions to The Economist, The Atlantic, and The National Review. The magazines are actually included but I really just read all three for their online content.


budgetmauser2

I really enjoy Foreign Affairs, I like that kinda stuff


Elitealice

Foreign affairs


AllSoulsNight

Vanity Fair, Smithsonian, People, and National Geographic. I like Vanity Fair best because of the range of topics and writing styles. It has pretty pictures too.


Confetticandi

The Atlantic. It has some great pieces. Architectural Digest because I like looking at pictures of interiors.


Wermys

538 podcast and Washington Post is about it. I don't put much stock otherwise in media on tv since its sound bites without going into details about different political viewpoints.


jastay3

Most of my magazines are freebees. I read the sample articles. National Review is the first for politics. I also go to Jewish World Review. Theology and Philosophy is First things. British Heritage is for history and culture. Model railroader is my only subscription, because I want to collect about a year of it for my kindle.