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Old 08-31-2023, 10:25 AM
 
Location: The Piedmont of North Carolina
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Folks still subscribe to N&O?
Yes, though I don't.

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If you want to know your local news, it helps to pay for journalism and true journalists. Otherwise you just get “announcements” and news releases which are potentially incomplete.
Our subscriptions pay for this. I assume their costs have gone up?
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Besides, yesterday's news arriving tomorrow is expensive.
I prefer reading yesterday's news today. Why, you might ask? Because, so much of the news that is first reported is incorrect. I would rather read the news after it has had time to dwell and be verified. With the amount of misinformation being spread, I like to think that my due diligence is making an impact, be it as small as it may be.

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I stopped getting the digital version about two years ago (the paper version stopped earlier.) I don't miss it, other than maybe the comics. I now get my left-leaning news from WRAL (and, apparently, center/neutral news from NewsNation via WNCN.)
I don't think I can stomach WRAL any longer. Yesterday, they played music that sounded like impending doom at the beginning of their broadcast, while covering the storm, and sent one of their meteorologists to South Carolina to show us that it was raining there.
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Old 08-31-2023, 11:02 AM
 
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NYT and WSJ each have deals for $50/yr, so given that, $159/yr for the N&O is pretty steep
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Old 08-31-2023, 11:12 AM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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My annual subscription to the News & Observer comes up for renewal in October. A year ago I was charged $172, tax included, a 52-week subscription (digital only). Today they notified me the renewal rate is $275 for the next 52 weeks... roughly a 60% increase. Has anyone else been notified of this?
Last year, I renewed for a bit more than that (Daily Paper + Digital Access). They originally wanted a bunch more than that. I told them I would renew at the price I previously paid or would cancel. They said OK.

I have been a daily subscriber since the mid-80s, but am getting close to dropping it if they want another price increase. I really do like having a physical paper to read, but other than the (month old) NYT crossword, there is less and less to like.

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I prefer reading yesterday's news today. Why, you might ask? Because, so much of the news that is first reported is incorrect. I would rather read the news after it has had time to dwell and be verified. With the amount of misinformation being spread, I like to think that my due diligence is making an impact, be it as small as it may be.
I don't mind the "old" news, but get tired of reading on Wednesday about a meeting that was going to occur on the previous Tuesday (or even Monday). Today's paper had a forecast (from noon yesterday) about the hurricane. Don't even try to find a score from a ball game that started after 1PM.

They can be pretty sloppy on editing what goes in the paper vs the online copy, such as leaving text in the paper that says something like "click on the link below" , etc.

The other day, they left in the instructions for someone who would be reading the copy (eg "moderators note.....")
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Old 08-31-2023, 04:20 PM
 
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There's a pop-up ad on the N&O site advertising a Labor Day sale of $99.99 for a year of digital access.
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