I recently subscribed to the WaPo online edition via my Prime membership. Since I live in the "DMV" now (no, not the one where you get your driver's license), it functions as both a national and local-ish news source for me. And since I'm already paying for Prime, it's cheap enough to swallow (technically I haven't even started paying yet, due to the generous trial period when signing up through Amazon).
One of my neighbors is an older fellow who still gets the paper edition delivered. I thought it was quaint at first, but then I started noticing how much more up to date he seemed to be on certain topics and events. Plus it gives me something other than clickbait articles to read while I sip my coffee in the morning --and it pre-loads content, so I can often read at least some articles while I'm offline.