Google tried this model some years back (I forget the name). The problem ends up (as always) being around the money. You need to sign up ~all the newspapers f

Google tried this model some years back (I forget the name). The problem ends up (as always) being around the money. You need to sign up ~all the newspapers for it to be valuable for users (otherwise they're paying $20/mo for access to just a random subset of the news), but the more newspapers you sign up, the more you need to split the user's subscription fee between an increasingly large pool of newspapers. In the post he writes that the papers should get their "fair share", but how do you compute that? If you do it based on pageviews you create an incentive for participants in the program to juice their pageviews, either through low-quality clickbait or technical means like splitting a single article into a multipart series. And so on.