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If you already pay for NYT All Access or Apple News+, The Athletic is included. If not, check whether your library offers a free 24-hour Athletic pass, as Denver, St. Louis County and Ottawa do.

If you already pay for Apple News+, The Atlantic is included. If not, look for the latest magazine issues free in your library's Flipster or PressReader app.

If you live in Victoria, a free State Library Victoria membership lets you read AFR articles from home (three days after publication); elsewhere, check your state or council library's NewsBank or PressReader access.

If you are a student or work at a university, first check whether your school offers free Bloomberg.com access. Otherwise, the student plan or Apple News+ (for Businessweek) is the cheapest legal route.

Read the weekly edition free on PressReader with a library card if your library offers it. Otherwise, students and teachers should take the 75%-off annual plan.

Students and staff should check for a free FT licence at their school, college, university or employer first, because group access is the most common free route to the full FT.

The current flash sale (C$0.49/week for the first 24 weeks) is the cheapest full subscription; for free reading, use your public library's ProQuest or Gale news database from home, or PressReader inside a branch.

If you already pay for Apple News+, it includes the LA Times. Otherwise the cheapest full access is the US$1-for-4-months introductory offer, and a Los Angeles Public Library card lets you read LA Times articles free in ProQuest.

If your public library licenses the Times, your card gets you a free pass, usually for 24 or 72 hours, that you can renew whenever it runs out.

In the US, borrow the latest issues free in the Libby app with your library card. Elsewhere, check your library's PressReader, or read it in Apple News+ if you already pay for it.

Apple News+ (A$19.99/month after a free trial) includes The Australian, Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, Courier-Mail and The Advertiser; if you are a student, check whether your university already provides free News Corp access.

If your university is in Nine's Campus Access scheme you can activate a free Premium Digital subscription with your uni email; otherwise a state or council library card gets you the Herald's digital edition free.

With a UK library card you can read the full Telegraph edition free in PressReader, and UK students can claim a free year of digital access through Student Beans.

UK students should take the Student Beans plan at £9.99 a year; everyone else can read the text of The Times free through a UK library's NewsBank service, or get it as part of Apple News+.

In the US, check whether your public library or college offers free WSJ passes. Elsewhere, Apple News+ is the simplest paid route that includes WSJ stories.

Check whether your public library offers a free 7-day Post pass, as LA and DC do. If you already pay for Apple News+, it includes the Post.