I do pay for news. It works out to a couple of USD per day I would guess. It's not very efficient, I'm paying for a lot of stuff that I'm not interested in to

I do pay for news. It works out to a couple of USD per day I would guess. It's not very efficient, I'm paying for a lot of stuff that I'm not interested in to get a small amount of news that I am interested in. It's probably value for money though as I do appreciate what I read and it's less than the price of a coffee. I would possibly be interested in a curation service as long as I was in control of the curation and it had access to both free and paid articles. The problem I would envisage is that, for it to be worth oto $10 a day to me, I'd need it to cover most of my news requirements i.e. a digest of the sort of news that newspapers have, expert opinion of current political affairs in G4 from multiple political viewpoints, and topical journal articles in the academic subjects I'm interested in. Plus the musings of selected columnists. To make it work, for me, it'd presumably need to do deals with a lot of publishers who wouldn't necessarily be particularly happy with the idea. Maybe if the bottom falls out of advertising for free news (highly likely) then it'd be more attractive. I doubt I'd be interested in a yet another generator of "original" general news. Sure if it had a lot of high quality journalists who were out to inform rather than push an agenda and had interests that happened to largely coincide with mine. Not going to hold my breath though.