among people who had paid for online news themselves in the past year
Supplementary notes
Original question: "You said that you have paid for access to online news in the last year … Which of the following, if any, describes why you pay for online news?"
As of February 2026, the main reason for subscribing or donating to news outlets was to get useful content that cannot be accessed any other way as reported by ** percent of respondents. This was followed by wanting to support journalism and wanting to have access to liked content.
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