{"id":82388,"date":"2017-12-20T16:15:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T15:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=82388"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:54","slug":"latest-generation-news-junkies-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2017\/12\/20\/latest-generation-news-junkies-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"‘EUR should offer students a free newspaper subscription’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goodbye paper, hello online. It\u2019s a trend that has been unfurling for some time in the media landscape. Leaving the question: do users actually want this digital news revolution? Or are they still attached to fixed delivery moments, the feel of paper and subscriptions? EM asked five 20-year-old experts. \u201cEUR should offer students a free newspaper subscription.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Verschillende edities van Nederlandse universiteitsmedia.<\/span><\/p>

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Ersin Seyhan Korkmaz, Law<\/h2>
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Media consumption<\/strong><\/p>\n

News on TV:\u00a0<\/strong>Yesterday evening (a few evenings a week)<\/p>\n

Paper:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2018When someone physically hands me one.\u2019<\/p>\n

News sources:\u00a0<\/strong>The apps of de Volkskrant, NOS, De Telegraaf and RTL Nieuws<\/p>\n

Subscriptions:\u00a0<\/strong>Law journals<\/p>\n

Pay for news:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2018Later, when I have a job\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThe university should offer students free newspaper subscriptions, the same way it does with the Microsoft Office Suite. It would enrich students\u2019 lives. Because the newspapers produce high-quality coverage, but getting behind that paywall is too expensive. I stick to reading the free updates on news apps. I only read a paper newspaper when someone physically hands me one at the station. Or I grab a copy of Metro in the train.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI come from a family of lawyers. My sisters all studied Law and now I\u2019m a law student too. The law journals that we subscribe to at home are the only paper media that I read on a regular basis. And if I don\u2019t have to do basketball practice in the evening, I watch the news on TV. In my view, \u2018NOS Journaal\u2019 makes a good selection of news and its coverage is based on solid research.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a number of news apps on my phone. This way, I try to look at news from a variety of perspectives. For example, I regularly see differences between the papers De Telegraaf and de Volkskrant. In court cases, de Volkskrant is more reluctant to state a defendant\u2019s ethnicity than De Telegraaf. I\u2019m generally satisfied with the channels I\u2019ve chosen. When it comes to the media, the Netherlands is a solid country with independent and objective journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n

04 Yarrid Knijnenburg<\/h2>

International Business Administration<\/h3>
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Media consumption<\/strong><\/p>\n

News on TV:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2018A month ago at my mother\u2019s place\u2019<\/p>\n

Paper:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2018Not my thing\u2019<\/p>\n

News sources:\u00a0<\/strong>NU.nl \/ CNN \/ BBC<\/p>\n

Subscriptions:\u00a0<\/strong>Used to have one, to The Economist<\/p>\n

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\u201cI used to have a subscription to The Economist in secondary school. I was interested in economics and business administration and wanted to explore those subjects in greater depth. But with a new one coming in every week, that magazine turned reading into a chore that I didn\u2019t come around to enough. I didn\u2019t feel like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI mostly check out news on my computer \u2013 I usually look for what interests me. I mainly look on the free websites offered by CNN for US news and BBC for general developments worldwide. And on my phone, I follow the updates offered via the Dutch Nu.nl app, particularly on economic developments. The last time I watched the news on TV was a month ago, at my mother\u2019s. She still watches three daily news programmes back to back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI just as easily read long-reads online as on paper. A few weeks ago, during the Kevin Spacey scandal, Nu.nl posted a short update. At which point I went in search of a background story. CNN had one on their website.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether I can imagine paying for journalism? As a student, I simply can\u2019t afford it. Maybe later, when I have a proper job.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Media consumption<\/strong><\/p>\n

News on TV:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2018Two months ago\u2019<\/p>\n

Paper:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2018No. It\u2019s impractical and unnecessary.\u2019<\/p>\n

News sources:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>NOS \/ Google<\/p>\n

Subscriptions: <\/strong>No<\/p>\n

Pay for news:<\/strong> No<\/p>\n

\u201cFacebook is my primary source of information. Scrolling through, you come across the main news of the day. That\u2019s usually enough for me. It\u2019s so quick and easy that you really don\u2019t need much else. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t require many other sources. It\u2019s only when I want to know more about a subject that I Google for more information.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that it\u2019s a lot easier to source news nowadays has both advantages and disadvantages. I think that nowadays, young people are a lot more up to date on news events than they used to be, but the downside is that everything in the media has to be speeded up. Short articles, more lightweight subjects and misleading headlines so that people will click the link. You even see it going on in the broadcasts of the Dutch news channels NOS and RTL. I\u2019m not too happy with this, because I expect quality from them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPaying for news is simply outdated. None of my friends has a paid subscription anymore. News is so easy to find on the internet. I don\u2019t read from paper either. Every once in a while, I\u2019ll leaf through a newspaper at my parents\u2019, but paper is more impractical than anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would definitely like to watch the news on TV more often, but I simply don\u2019t have the time. I even set an alarm in my phone for \u2018Holland\u2019s Next Top Model\u2019 \u2013 one of my favourite programmes \u2013 otherwise I\u2019d forget to watch. Apart from that, I never watch TV anymore. It\u2019s all Netflix and YouTube.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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