Yes. If I was to really think about it and summarise my reasons:
Curation - yes, I could probably find similar stories on the web and read them, but a print magazine does the discovery and brings them all together for me in a way that a search engine or news aggregator doesn't/chooses not to. When browsing news sites, I find myself only selecting/reading articles based on their title and slug-line (which is the entire purpose of click-bait titles) whereas with a magazine/print publication, I'll read it cover-to-cover, exposing me to stories and points of view that I would otherwise miss. I've also found that good long-form journalism appears to be a dying art in the online world, but maybe that's on me for the sites I visit.
Focus - A magazine doesn't try and grab my attention with animation, video and other distractions. Yes they run ads, but (in the periodicals I read) they are generally full page and not halfway through the sentence you are reading. Print ads are expensive, so in my experience generally only promote high-end or luxury products targeting a perception of the magazine reader, rather than the last thing the reader searched for/emailed/said out aloud in front of their home speaker. I can also read through an article end-to-end without being pulled down a rabbit hole of links and references. Reading once again becomes a purposeful activity, without sitting in front of a machine that could easily switch from a book to a TV, to a video game in seconds.
Texture - there is something about picking up a book or magazine (especially higher end publications that print on quality paper stock) that I don't think will ever be emulated by a tablet or an e-reader. I'm sure I read somewhere that the touch and even smell of paper in your subconscious helps your brain store information longer term. Also, I love great typesetting and layout, things that online ads pretty much ruin for most sites.
Curation - yes, I could probably find similar stories on the web and read them, but a print magazine does the discovery and brings them all together for me in a way that a search engine or news aggregator doesn't/chooses not to. When browsing news sites, I find myself only selecting/reading articles based on their title and slug-line (which is the entire purpose of click-bait titles) whereas with a magazine/print publication, I'll read it cover-to-cover, exposing me to stories and points of view that I would otherwise miss. I've also found that good long-form journalism appears to be a dying art in the online world, but maybe that's on me for the sites I visit.
Focus - A magazine doesn't try and grab my attention with animation, video and other distractions. Yes they run ads, but (in the periodicals I read) they are generally full page and not halfway through the sentence you are reading. Print ads are expensive, so in my experience generally only promote high-end or luxury products targeting a perception of the magazine reader, rather than the last thing the reader searched for/emailed/said out aloud in front of their home speaker. I can also read through an article end-to-end without being pulled down a rabbit hole of links and references. Reading once again becomes a purposeful activity, without sitting in front of a machine that could easily switch from a book to a TV, to a video game in seconds.
Texture - there is something about picking up a book or magazine (especially higher end publications that print on quality paper stock) that I don't think will ever be emulated by a tablet or an e-reader. I'm sure I read somewhere that the touch and even smell of paper in your subconscious helps your brain store information longer term. Also, I love great typesetting and layout, things that online ads pretty much ruin for most sites.
Monocle Magazine - https://monocle.com/magazine/
Hey Gents (Now Softer Volumes) - https://softervolumes.com
The Smith Journal - (sadly now out of print)