Ask HN: What paid news outlets do you recommend/use?

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6 years ago

News is one area of my life that I don't pay for (directly). For a long time I assumed it would be just as bad ad/tracking-wise verses I did pay and that accessing news across my devices would be a huge PITA.

For example, John Gruber [0] has called out the WSJ multiple times on his podcast because it would force him to re-login-in all the time.

I don't want to pay for something that I won't use because it's so hostile to the user. That said, there are more and more articles that I see (some posted here on HN) that I would like to read but are paywalled. I'm ok with having a handful of subscriptions. So, how do you approach this issue? What do you subscribe to? Do you read mainly online/rss(is even still available for news?)/app?

Also is anyone using Apple News+? It seems more like a news feed than access via a real subscription (for example WSJ is in Apple News+ but only back 3 days[1]) and I've heard the Mac App is trash.

[0] https://daringfireball.net/

[1] https://www.cultofmac.com/614802/what-apple-news-means-for-wall-street-journal/

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