I get the daily briefing from the NYT (for which I pay nowt) and I'm a full subscriber to the digital Guardian and Observer daily editions. I stopped getting the physical paper several years ago as it was (a) much more expensive than the digital sub, (b) I wasn't looking at an awful lot of pages, and (c) it seemed like an alarming amount of paper to recycle every day. I've been taking the Guardian for almost half a century. I don't always like the comment in the Guardian and it tends to be a fair bit more right-leaning than me at times, but what I do like is that it's owned by a trust and not by a billionaire, it endeavours to be independent, it invites pieces from contributors from right across the political spectrum (I've seen comment pieces from David Cameron and Benjamin Netanyahu, for example) and that it has a very accessible, paywall-free website (I actually resort to that more than the daily edition, as it's constantly updated through the day). I do get those irritating yellow requests for money occasionally, even though I get the premium edition as part of my sub, because the dear old Guardian has a habit of forgetting that I'm already paying. I also resort to the BBC News website (I do pay the BBC licence fee, of course). About once or twice a year I get an appeal from wiki, to which I always respond with a few quid. I use ad-free wiki so much that I feel I should.

The so-called "quality" papers have stern paywalls and I don't use them. I don't see why I should be supporting right-wing outlets with my dough. The tabloids are far more accessible as long as you don't mind incessant ads, slow page-loading and the screen jumping around all over the place. I tend to avoid, though I'm not religious about it.