I don't think it is but I'm starting to wish it were. A large number of articles on HN come from WSJ, NYT, Medium, and Bloomberg. 2 solutions come to mind: 1.

I don't think it is but I'm starting to wish it were. A large number of articles on HN come from WSJ, NYT, Medium, and Bloomberg. 2 solutions come to mind: 1. Have a "site subscription" where links referred from your site are not paywalled. And you would pay a subscription fee to be referrer-whitelisted on the paywall; the subscription rate could be highly debated. 2. Have a "multi-subscription package" where I pay one organization, and they take my payment, slice it up, and distribute it to several dozen news companies. The administrative fee for doing this would come into question. I agree that writers, webhosts, and other employees of these news companies should get paid; this isn't a product that's made for free. I don't really want to have to track a handful of inexpensive subscriptions. And the subscription path for NYT and WSJ is unclear - I haven't found the page where I can simply buy a 1-year subscription; only the "12 weeks for $12" deal.