Poll: 40% of millennials pay for news

Associated Press

NEW YORK

In a world flush with free information, some young people still are willing to shell out for news they read.

A recent poll shows that 40 percent of U.S. adults age 18-34 pay for at least some of the news they read, whether it’s a print newspaper, a digital news app or an email newsletter.

Another 13 percent don’t pay themselves but rely on someone else’s subscription, according to the survey by Media Insight Project, a collaboration of the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Older millennials are more likely than younger ones to personally pay for news.

A quarter of those polled paid for some type of digital news, while 29 percent paid for a print paper or magazine.